evilscientress / beaconrelay

A small python demon that relays the Icinga 2 status to mqtt for use with my EPS8266 based notification beacon.

beaconrelay

A small python demon that relays the Icinga 2 status to mqtt for use with my EPS8266 based notification beacon.

Instalation

• Clone the Repository
• create a virtual env or install the dependencies globaly
• install the dependencies

git clone https://github.com/evilscientress/beaconrelay.git
cd beaconrelay
virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

The relaybeacon demon can be configured with a ini style configuration file. Per default a file called beaconrelay.cfg is loaded from the current working directory. The location of the config file can be changed by setting the BEACONRELAY_CONFIG enviorment variable.

A minimal configuration looks like this, for more optios check the beaconrelay.cfg.example file in the repo.

[icinga]
address=https://icingahost.example.com:5665
user=beaconrelay
password=correct horse battery staple

[mqtt]
hostname=iot.eclipse.org
tls=True # optional defaults to False
user=mqttuser
password=mqttpassword

Usage

python relaybeacon.py