Thing-it-device-osram-sympholight NPM

thing-it-device-osram-sympholight

thing-it-node Device Plugin to interface with lighting designs and lighting applications configured in OSRAM e:cue Sympholight by means of thing-it-node and thing-it.com.

NOTE: This Device Plugin is in an early development stage.

Hereby, this plugin represents basic Sympholight Objects such as

devices in DMX Universes
DALI devices

connected to a generic Sympholight Gateway and communication to those via UDP/IP.

Installation

Installation of NodeJS and thing-it-node

First, install nodejs on your computer (e.g. your PC or your Raspberry Pi).

Then install thing-it-node via

npm install -g thing-it-node

Connectivity to Sympholight

Make sure that the computer running thing-it-node is connected to the network where your Sympholight Devices and Objects can be reachned via IP and obtain the Sympholight IDs for the Devices and Objects you want to represent in thing-it-node. These will be used in the thing-it-node configuration.uFH5n

Initialization and Start of thing-it-node

The thing-it-device-osram-sympholight Plugin is installed with thing-it-node, hence there is no need to install it separately.

The Plugin supports Autodiscovery, hence you only have to create a directory in which you intend to run the configuration, e.g.

mkdir ~/bacnet-test
cd ~/bacnet-test

and invoke

tin init

and then start thing-it-node via

tin run

Install the thing-it Mobile App from the Apple Appstore or Google Play and set it up to connect to thing-it-node locally as described here or just connect your browser under http://localhost:3001.

Mobile UI

Where to go from here ...

After completing the above, you may be interested in

Configuring additional Devices, Groups, Services, Event Processing, Storyboards and Jobs via your thing-it Mobile App.
Use thing-it.com to safely connect your Node Box from everywhere, manage complex configurations, store and analyze historical data and offer your configurations to others on the thing-it Mesh Market.
Explore other Device Plugins like Texas Instruments Sensor Tag, Plugwise Smart Switches and many more. For a full set of Device Plugins search for thing-it-device on npm. Or write your own Plugins.