soneups / socket_control

A lightweight mobile/web app for controlling a couple of energenie remote control wall sockets via a raspberry pi.

socket_control

A tiny web app to run on a Raspberry Pi with a pimote to seperately control up to four energenie4u RC power sockets, from a mobile friendly web interface.

Contents

• index.html provides a simple touch friendly control interface
• pimote.py provides an API for sending signals via GPIO pins to control the sockets
• app.py is a bottle web app which serves the index page and provides some endpoints for managing the state of the sockets

Usage

Follow these instructions to get started with the energenie RC sockets and Pimote Raspberry Pi Extension.

# fetch dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio
sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install bottle

# get socket_control
git clone https://github.com/nat-n/socket_control.git
cd socket_control

# run it (as root because GPIO requires it)
sudo ./app.py

Crontab

Create simple crontab jobs to change socket status i.e

• 40 15 * * * wget http://ip/1/1 --delete-after #turn socket one on 3.40
• 40 15 * * * wget http://ip/1/0 --delete-after #turn socket one off 3.40

Once the app has started, open your web browser and visit port 8080 at your raspbery pi's IP address (and Add to home screen if you're on IOS).

Voilà!