homestar-johnny-five

IOTDB Bridge for Arduino / JohnnyFive devices.

About

• Read about Bridges

Installation

• Read this first

Then:

$ npm install homestar-johnny-five

Use

Blink an LED every two seconds

const iotdb = require("iotdb")
iotdb.use("homestar-johnny-five")

const things = iot.connect('JohnnyFiveLED', {
    pin: 2
});

let count = 0;
setInterval(function() {
    things.set(':on', count++ % 2)
}, 1000);

Technical

How does it interface with Johnny-Five

All the data referenced in this section refers to the "binding", which you can find in the of the model.js files.

Example Binding

We'll use this as a reference

exports.binding = {
    model: require('./Something.json'),
    bridge: require('../JohnnyFiveBridge').Bridge,
    discover: false,
    initd: {
        component: "Pin",
        pin: 13,
        type: "digital",
        model: 1,   // output
    },
    connectd: {
        data_out: function (paramd) {
            if (paramd.cookd.on !== undefined) {
                if (paramd.cookd.on) {
                    paramd.rawd.Pin = [ "write", 1 ];
                } else {
                    paramd.rawd.Pin = [ "write", 0 ];
                }
            }
        },
    },
};

Board

• The "Board" is automatically created, doing the "best thing" for the current environment. For example, if you are on a Mac it will look to the serial port. If you're on an Edison, it will create an Edison parameter.
• Right now we are only supporting a single board.
• We may change / enhance this, but it won't break stuff already written

Component Creation

"binding.initd.component" determines which Johnny-Five component is being created. For example, if you want to use the Johnny-Five Pin component, this would be "Pin". All the other items in "initd" are passed to the constructor. So for example, this definition

initd: {
    component: "Pin",
    pin: 13,
    type: "digital",
    model: 1,   // output
}

ends up doing something like this

component = new five.Pin({
    pin: 13,
    type: "digital",
    model: 1,
})