IoMBian Bluetooth Configurator

This service allows to configure the IoMBian device using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

Installation

• Define project name in an environment variable:

PROJECT_NAME=iombian-bluetooth-configurator

• Clone the repo into a temp folder:

git clone https://github.com/Tknika/${PROJECT_NAME}.git /tmp/${PROJECT_NAME} && cd /tmp/${PROJECT_NAME}

• Create the installation folder and move the appropiate files (edit the user):

sudo mkdir /opt/${PROJECT_NAME}

sudo cp requirements.txt /opt/${PROJECT_NAME}

sudo cp -r src/* /opt/${PROJECT_NAME}

sudo cp systemd/${PROJECT_NAME}.service /etc/systemd/system/

sudo chown -R iompi:iompi /opt/${PROJECT_NAME}

• Create the virtual environment and install the dependencies:

cd /opt/${PROJECT_NAME}

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Start the script

sudo systemctl enable ${PROJECT_NAME}.service && sudo systemctl start ${PROJECT_NAME}.service

Docker

To build the docker image, from the cloned repository, execute the docker build command in the same level as the Dockerfile. In this case replace the variables like ${IMAGE_NAME} with a value.

docker build -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_VERSION}

For example: docker build -t iombian-bluetooth-configurator:latest .

After building the image, execute it with docker run.

docker run --name ${CONTAINER_NAME} --privileged --network=host -e CONFIG_PORT=5555 -e LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG iombian-bluetooth-configurator:latest

• --name is used to define the name of the created container.

• -privileged is for granting privileges to the docker container. This is needed because iombian-bluetooth-configurator needs access to the bluetooth hardware.

• --rm can be used to delete the container when it stops. This parameter is optional.

• -d is used to run the container detached. This way the container will run in the background. This parameter is optional.

• --networt=host is used to share the network between the container and the host. In this case it's used to give the container access to the bluetooth hardware.

• -e can be used to define the environment variables:

  • CONFIG_PORT: The port where the service needs to connect to send the configuration values. Default port is 5555.
  • LOG_LEVEL: define the log level for the python logger. This can be NOTSET, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR or CRITICAL. Default value is INFO.

Author

(c) 2024 Aitor Iturrioz Rodríguez

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