geckoflume/led-server

A Pythonserver to Control RGB-Strip LED's connected to a Raspberry Pi by listening to Commands e.g. sent by an App

#LED-Server

This Script can be used on a Raspberry Pi to Control a RGB-Led Strip connected to its GPIO-Pins. The Script creates a Socket and waits for Commands to set the Color of your LED-Strip.

An Android App to Control the LED-Strip via Wifi can be found here: Android LED-Controller App

In Order to use it you will need the PIGPIOD Library installed on your Raspberry Pi, have a look at it here: http://abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/

Before you start the script (after installing PIGPIOD) you need to run:

sudo pigpiod

to start it as a daemon. Set the IP-Address and Port in the Script to your local Settings.

#Update 02. Aug. 2016

##Autostart as systemd service: You can also setup a systemd service on your Raspberry Pi in order to autorun PIGPIOD and the LED-server at startup. Just follow this guide. Before step 2 you need to create a shell script that starts PIGPIOD and the Led-Server. Create the file /home/pi/Desktop/rgbservice.sh (or any other location) with the following content:

sudo pigpiod

sudo /usr/bin/python /LOCATION/TO/server.py

Then in step 2, change the line starting with ExecStart to the following:

ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/Desktop/rgbservice.sh

Apart from that, just follow all steps of the guide.

##Autostart with rc.local: Just copy the following lines into /etc/rc.local (before the line exit 0):

/DIRECTORY/TO/pigpiod /usr/bin/python /DIRECTORY/TO/server.py &

After that just reboot: sudo reboot

#Setup Here's how to wire it, in my case i used STP16NF06L Mosfets (The RGB-Led in this Picture can be replaced by a RGB-Led Strip):