Simple Manipulation and Actuation of Remote Things (SMART)

Final project for Running With Scissors

SMART allows users to graphically compose applications by tying together their smap connected devices with additional control logic. The goal of this project is for everyone to make the full use of their devices to meet individual specific needs. SMART scans for available devices and allows the user to run any of their created apps whose devices are all within range. The devices and control logic are represented as nodes that can be connected together with 'wires' using an intuitive drag and drop interface. SMART runs on desktop and mobile devices, but we focused on mobile devices first as they are relatively common. Our intent is for people at all levels of computational sophistication to realize new applications and solutions with SMART.

Running the Application

The server accepts requests from the user application. It creates a new instance of the interpreter in a new thread when the user wants to run one of their programs. It is responsible for saving, starting, or stopping programs.

To run the server:

python server.py

The app itself can be run in an emulator or on an actual device. It is by default set up to look for the server at http://shell.storm.pm:14588, which is where we ran the server for the demo. This can be changed by adjusting the server_url variable in ioet-view/www/js/RWSVisualizationController.js and ioet-view/www/js/RWSMenu.js. Running this app on the device or in an emulator requires the appropriate mobile development SDK to be setup on your computer.

To run the mobile app:

cd ioet-view

phonegap [emulate|run] [ios|android]

Demo sMAP sources

We created 8 sMAP streams to be used as sources for demoing SMART.

• ambient and IR temperature
• 3 buttons
• accelerometer x,y,and z values

To load the firestorm code for these sources:

./firestorm/build-source.lua

To run the middleware:

cd smap

python middleware.py

Demo sMAP actuators

We created a few devices that may be actuated through sMAP. These have separate sMAP drivers but share a single firestorm. These devices include an LED light strip and a generic on/off device.

To load code for the actuator firestorm:

./firestorm/build-actuator.lua

To run the smap driver for the LED strip:

cd actuation_driver

twistd -n smap streetlight.ini

To run the smap driver for the on/off device:

cd smap/thing_driver

twistd -n smap thing-driver.ini

Dependencies

• PhoneGap
• Mobile Development SDK (Android/iOS)
• python
• ws4py
• a sMAP archiver
• sMAP enabled devices

relevant files and directories

• server.py receives requests from phone app, sends programs to interpreter.py
• interpreter.py executes the user created programs
• firestorm/ contains files for the firestorm sMAP devices
• smap/ contains middleware and drivers for the sMAP sources
• ioet-view/ contains all code for graphical program creation app running on Android/IOS
• ioet-view/www/js/ logic for the phone app
• test_server.py Contains example programs in json form for testing the server and interpreter
• primitiveConfig.js config file for graphical app. Generate by running "./interpreter.py gen:prim"