I built a bar in my garage, because I am in my 40s and I now hide from my children in my garage the same way I used to hide from my parents when in my teens.
The point is, I want the neighbors to know when it’s open for entertaining. I will be designing something I can to a “bat signal” in a separate thread.
In the meantime, I want to be able to give friends a website that they can check that lets them know whether there is a party going on. I might even have snapshots or currently playing music. I want them to be able to access this without having access to the rest of my HA.
Plausible solutions:
1. Use python to write a php or html page in the indigo/public folder
2. Uh, um, maybe there’s a way to script copying a control page to the public folder?
3. “I like turtles!”
Thoughts?
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Add subscribed text alerts, and make the bat signal massive!
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Doing a web page is possible, but don't forget that if you want it hosted on your Indigo server you'll need to port forward from your router and set up a DDNS entry as well.
Do you already have a public website somewhere? If so, the easiest way to do it is to make a pair of HTML files that change the status on that page to open/closed, and then use FTP to push the current page up to the server.
Do you already have a public website somewhere? If so, the easiest way to do it is to make a pair of HTML files that change the status on that page to open/closed, and then use FTP to push the current page up to the server.
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mat wrote:Add subscribed text alerts, and make the bat signal massive!
PS Saw my first turtle in the wild in February, loved it
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FlyingDiver wrote:Doing a web page is possible, but don't forget that if you want it hosted on your Indigo server you'll need to port forward from your router and set up a DDNS entry as well.
Do you already have a public website somewhere? If so, the easiest way to do it is to make a pair of HTML files that change the status on that page to open/closed, and then use FTP to push the current page up to the server.
Thanks for the reply-
I already have a registered domain and 8176 port-forwarding on, so the access to the public folder should be easy (hence my investigating that first).
I haven’t spun up a web server since 2012, and it was brief at that time to play with php. If that is a better idea, I can do that on my host mac, or on my NAS (Synology DS918+). The main limitation here is putting any dynamic info on the pages (e.g. now-playing, number of people, photos of the party, estimated closing time).
I guess there’s no way to copy an indigo control page to the public folder? At least that would save me having to re-learn web design.
I really suspect there’s an easy kludge for such a limited scope. I’ll look again at some posts i saw for limited-access users.
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Easiest way would be to setup Mac OS Server and use the web server there. It will auto create a landing page that you can edit to display what you want.
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@mundmc, what did you wind up doing for this ?
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FWIW, it would be nice if Indigo allowed access to Control Pages w/o a login. Not sure how hard it would be for that to happen, but it would be nice to be able to use a webpage in Social Media sometimes. I'm sure I can manage the routing and port forwarding to make it happen... but I'm still stuck with everyone needing a login.
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Wow- reading this thread i didn’t realize i started it!
I never got back to this one of dozens of projects, but am curious about it still.
I never got back to this one of dozens of projects, but am curious about it still.
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For perpetuity, I finally figured this out. I wrote a Python script in indigo to update the contents of a file "isParty.txt" to true or false.
JavaScript checks the contents of that file and changes the HTML as a result. It's simple, but it's a start.
HTML:
Javascript:
Have I mentioned that ChatGPT 4is really helpful? It took a couple goes for me to push it to understand what I wanted to do.
JavaScript checks the contents of that file and changes the HTML as a result. It's simple, but it's a start.
HTML:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Party Status</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="partyStatus">Checking party status...</h1>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Javascript:
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function updatePartyStatus() {
fetch('isParty.txt')
.then(response => response.text())
.then(data => {
var statusElement = document.getElementById('partyStatus');
if (data.trim() === 'true') {
statusElement.textContent = 'A party is happening!';
statusElement.style.color = '#2ecc71'; // green for party
} else if (data.trim() === 'false') {
statusElement.textContent = 'A party is not happening.';
statusElement.style.color = '#e74c3c'; // red for no party
} else {
statusElement.textContent = 'No status found.';
statusElement.style.color = '#333'; // default color
}
})
.catch(error => {
console.error('Error:', error);
});
}
// Update the status every second
setInterval(updatePartyStatus, 1000);
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This looks like an excellent templat e doing all sorts of interesting things with an indigo script generated HTML page. Thanks! Going to play with this today.
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Wow- hi praise, I appreciate it! Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this is completely a security nightmare that might be giving Matt and Jay chest pains, but as long as it's used for simple data reporting, I think it's pretty safe.
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mundmc wrote:Wow- hi praise, I appreciate it! Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this is completely a security nightmare that might be giving Matt and Jay chest pains, but as long as it's used for simple data reporting, I think it's pretty safe.
Note: plugins can also serve up web content which would be protected by the built-in authentication. Check out the Example HTTP Responder plugin in the Plugin SDK for a great starting point. It's really pretty simple as a starting point.
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jay (support) wrote:Note: plugins can also serve up web content which would be protected by the built-in authentication. Check out the Example HTTP Responder plugin in the Plugin SDK for a great starting point. It's really pretty simple as a starting point.
For example, I've written a plugin that serves up dynamic content using Indigo's built-in web server via a single page application (SPA). It's written in JavaScript and I use it to interact with Indigo from desktop and mobile. It's a work in progress. I know there are others that are working on similar things.
I don't bring this up to show off, but to highlight the capabilities of the awesome Indigo Web Server which can handle some pretty cool stuff.
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