Lightstreams is a distributed content publishing network. What makes Lightstreams unique is its authorisation protocol that allows owners of smart contracts to consent to others to access confidential or copyright data.
For now, a docker image has been created as the easiest way to run the lightstream client, with all the environment settings setup for you. If you don't have Docker installed on your machine follow these instructions here.
Then run the following command:
$ docker run -d --name device-1 -p 3001:3001 -e LOCALHOST="0.0.0.0:3001" autocontracts/lightstreams-client:v2
$ docker exec -it device-1 lightstreams-client run
This will host the lightstreams-client on port 3001, and IPFS on ports 4001, 5001. Make sure that you do not have a firewall blocking these ports and they are open.
To clean up:
$ docker stop device-1
$ docker rm device-1
If you want to create another docker container running on the same machine to test selling content to another device, then:
$ docker run -d --name device-2 -p 3002:3002 -e LOCALHOST="0.0.0.0:3002" autocontracts/lightstreams-client:v2
$ docker exec -it device-2 lightstreams-client run
To clean up:
$ docker stop device-2
$ docker rm device-2
Lightstreams uses the following clients for managing the Lightstreams blockchain
- Ethermint - Is based on a folk of the Go-Ethereum (Geth) client
- Tendermint - A consensus engine that used PoA instead of PoW
Download the following binaries from the Tendermint website for your operating system https://tendermint.com/downloads
- Ethermint (0.4.0)
- Tendermint (0.10.3)
Unzip these binaries into your executing path of you OS.
For example, for a macOS, open the terminal and switch to the folder:
$ unzip -d /usr/local/bin ethermint_0.4.0_darwin-10.6-amd64.zip
$ unzip -d /usr/local/bin tendermint_0.10.3_darwin_amd64.zip
Clone lightstreams
$ git clone https://github.com/lightstreams/lightstreams.git
$ cd lightstreams
Make a directory for the Lightstreams and copy genesis
$ mkdir -p ~/.lightstreams/tendermint
$ cp config/tendermint/genesis.json ~/.lightstreams/tendermint
Initialise Ethermint
$ ethermint --datadir ~/.lightstreams init config/ethereum/genesis.json
Run Tendermint
$ tendermint --home ~/.lightstreams/tendermint node --p2p.seeds '35.193.87.136:46656,35.192.228.28:46656,35.192.64.32:46656'
In another console window, run ethermint
$ ethermint --datadir ~/.lightstreams
$ geth attach http://localhost:8545