danielandreasen/home-control

A home control centre from the mobile

Home-Control

A home control centre from the a smartphone.

History

I recently wanted to see how I can connect to a localhost server on my laptop through my smartphone. Turns out this is very easy if you know the IP address of your laptop. So I went on and created a small controller for my laptop, i.e. a web page with buttons to turn on/off programs.

Installation

This is a python Flask project, and the installation is the usual

$ git clone https://github.com/DanielAndreasen/Home-Control
$ cd Home-Control
$ pip install -r requirements.txt # Alternatively make a virtualenv first
$ export HC_secret='<a very long string>'  # Alternatively add this to your config file
$ python app.py

Simply open up the localhost at the port indicated after the last command and you will be able to see a simple control panel.

Connect your phone

You will need to know the IP of your hosting server. On Linux just run ifconfig to find it. I only tested this when the smartphone and laptop are on the same network! If they are, simply visit <your IP adress>:<PORT> and you are done!

Add/remove new entry

At the moment of writing, simple edit line 11 in app.py and add/delete the templates/main.html file according to your changes.

Add custom command

Sometimes you don't have the command available that you would like to issue. Maybe you want to run a script that fetch data and analyse it. Simply write this in a small script and add the script to your PATH.