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devify-cli

devify is an IoT server boilerplate. It is extremely light weight and simple to use. To get to speed up, a cli tools is provided.

Usage

  Usage: devify [options] [command]


  Commands:

    new <dir>    Create a new devify-server project in the directory
    ui <name>    Install one ui package
    serve <dir>  Start ui package server

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

Quickstart

devify-cli is a cli tool for getting started with devify

npm install -g devify-cli

Create a new project with new command

devify new esp8266-iot

Install dependencies

cd esp8266-iot && npm install

Start the server

node esp8266-coap-server.js

By default, the IoT server is listening at coap://localhost:8000 to accept CoAP requests. Please use an IP address to listen from requests. Use HOST environment to achieve this.

$ export HOST=192.168.0.100
$ node esp8266-coap-server.js 
WoT.City/CoAP server is listening at coap://192.168.0.100:8000

The message shows that the server is listening at coap://192.168.0.100:8000.

Update Project

Devify project is developing and will be continous integrated into devify-server. You can update your project library code with update command.

$ devify <your_dir>

Manually

If you would likt to update your project by git manually. You can just upgrade the libs/ folder of your own project by the following commands.

$ cd <your-dir>
$ git remote add devify https://github.com/DevifyPlatform/devify-server
$ git fetch devify
$ git checkout devify/master libs
$ git remote remove devify

Since all the changes of upstream will only be in libs, you can just checkout libs/ from upstream master.

ESP8266 Howto

The server is listening at coap://192.168.0.100:8000 to accept CoAP requests. Use NodeMCU and Lua to send message.

-- Configure the ESP as a station (client)
wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)  
wifi.sta.config("<SSID>", "<PASSWORD>")  
wifi.sta.autoconnect(1)

-- Create a CoAP client
cc = coap.Client()

-- Make a POST request
uri="coap://127.0.0.1:8000/object/12345678/send"

tmr.alarm(0, 1000, 1, function() 
    cc:post(uri, "{\"temp\":20}\r\n")
end)

URI Style

coap://127.0.0.1:8000/object/<ObjectID>/send

object is the resource name
<ObjectID> is the unique ID of the resource. Please assign a string for your device.
send is the action which means "sending data to the server*