Maplin power socket HTML remote

Screenshot

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And yes, this proves my HTML/UI Design skills are as terrible as my JS coding!

Description

As detailed in this blog post, thanks to Duncan McGregor reverse engineering the protocol the Maplin remote control uses to control the power sockets I now have a Pi which can toggle my sockets. I hooked my Pi up to my Mosquitto, MQTT broker to listen for events.

This repo contains the web ui I use to control those sockets. It uses the paho Javascript, Websockets MQTT client library which can be found in their GIT repo here, or downloaded directly from here. It should be downloaded and put in the same directory on your web server as index.html and config.js. Other than that it doesn't require any other downloads, although it does use JQuery and Bootstrap, which are both referenced from the CloudFlare CDN.

I wrote it to subscribe to a topic defined by the switchTopic entry in config.js where it expects to receive a JSON object which lists all the rooms. The JSON is very simple and should be published to that topic as a retained message so it is available to any client subscribing to that topic immediately. From this JSON object a list of buttons is created.

When a button is clicked (either on, or off) a JSON object is posted to the topic defined in toggleTopic, also in config.js. This is in the format expected by maplin-mqtt.py which is in my strogonanoff-switch GH repo.

update-rooms.sh

This is a simple bash script which I use to update the configuration of the rooms when I (seldomly) need to. I just edit the JSON and run it on the command line, it publishes a retained message to the switchTopic defined in the top of the file (which needs to match the switchTopic in config.js). The web ui subscribes to this topic on load and expects to find a retained message with some JSON which describes the channel, button and name of each switch. An example of the JSON is shown in "Example switch config JSON" below.

Example switch action JSON

{
    "channel": 4,
    "button": 1,
    "action": "on"
}

Example switch config JSON

{
    "rooms": [
        {
            "name": "Lounge",
            "channel": 4,
            "button": 1
        },
        {
            "name": "Tank",
            "channel": 4,
            "button": 2
        },
        {
            "name": "Sofa",
            "channel": 4,
            "button": 3
        },
        {
            "name": "Outside",
            "channel": 4,
            "button": 4
        },
        {
            "name": "Spareroom",
            "channel": 3,
            "button": 1
        },
        {
            "name": "OurRoom",
            "channel": 3,
            "button": 2
        }
    ]
}

License

This project is licensed under a MIT style license with an additional non-advertising clause. See LICENSE.md for more information.

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