Django project & apps that implement RPC services for the Home Control system.

See my blog post for extended description and design.

Additional Home-Control projects:

• HomeControl Web Front End
• HomeControl Arduino A/C Controller

• Django (developed and tested with v1.5).
• For live audio recording, the A/C RPC app requires PyAlsaAudio library for Linux (not supported in Windows).
• For signal energy graphing, the mic module requires matplotlib library (version >= 3.0).
• For schema management and migrations (for development) - Django South (developed with v0.8).

As a Django project & apps, installation and deployment are not different than other Django projects.

1. Clone the repository to the computer that will run the RPC app(s).
2. Optionally, create a local_settings.py file in HomeControlRPC/HomeControlRPC to override settings from the generic settings file (feel free to use local_settings.py.sample as a suggestion).
3. Run manage.py syncdb to initialize the DB (and create a super user).
4. Set up your web server of choice to serve the Django site.
5. Access the admin interface (e.g. at http://your-deployed-host/admin/) to configure the installed RPC apps (see the app-specific documentation for details on their configurations).
6. Celebrate.

• A/C RPC App
• WebCam RPC App

(tested with Ubuntu-Desktop-12.04.2-x64)

Install requirements:

• Python and various dependencies: sudo apt-get install libexpat1 python-pip build-essential python-imaging python-pythonmagick python-markdown python-textile python-docutils
• WARNING: Do not install python-django via apt-get on 12.04 - the default repositories has an old version...
• Django: sudo pip install Django

Clone and configure the home-control-RPC project:

1. cd ~
2. git clone https://github.com/itamaro/home-control-RPC.git
3. cd home-control-RPC/HomeControlRPC/HomeControlRPC
4. cp local_settings.py.sample local_settings.py
   • Edit local_settings.py till happy.
5. cd ..
6. python manage.py syncdb
   • Create a super user

After setting up a web server to serve the Django site (see web-server-specific examples below), access the Django admin interface (e.g. http://localhost:8008/admin/) to configure the installed apps (see app-specific README's for further details).

Soon

(my dev-env is Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64)

1. Install Python, setuptools, pip, Git client (e.g. Git Extensions)
2. pip install Django south nose django-nose mock
3. Clone https://github.com/itamaro/home-control-RPC.git to your local workspace (e.g. C:\Users\<name>\Workspaces\home-control\home-control-RPC.
4. Copy local_settings.py.win-dev-sample to local_settings.py in the HomeControlRPC\HomeControlRPC directory.
   • Edit it until you're happy.
5. In command prompt, cd to C:\Users\<name>\Workspaces\home-control\home-control-RPC\HomeControlRPC
6. python manage.py syncdb
   • Create super user.
7. If you're using South: a. python manage.py schemamigration AC --initial b. python manage.py migrate AC c. python manage.py schemamigration cam --initial d. python manage.py migrate cam
8. python manage.py runserver 8008

The home-control-RPC site is now available on http://localhost:8008/ - access /admin/ to configure app-settings, and hack away at the project.

You would probably also want to set up a local development environment of the home-control-web project in order to have a fully functional setup.

Please share interesting stuff you do!