Onrein

A daemon lurking in your house, meddling with all your Things.

Installation

npm install -g onrein

Usage

Onrein comes with two components: a long-running service to manage Things, and a CLI to manage the service and manage Things manually and immediately.

Command: start

onrein start MANIFEST

Starts a long-running process, loading MANIFEST as a description of all the Things Onrein should manage. The manifest file should be a JSON file or a Node module exporting an Object with three keys, account, curves, and devices. If provided, an options key will also be interpreted.

The account Object should provide four values required by the Wink API to authenticate Onrein for control over your Things:

• consumer: A pair of OAuth consumer credentials, key and secret. Reach out to Wink Support for your own. They will probably call it client_id and client_secret.
• username: Your Wink username.
• password: Your Wink password.

The curves Object should map arbitrary curve names to values parseable as valid Thermostat options. See the Thermostat docs for more information.

The devices Object should map unique device_type/devive_id pairs, as defined by Wink, to an Object with that Thing's desired_state (also as defined by Wink).

Importantly, the touch point between the two is through rendering values in the desired_state from curves. Every tick, Onrein queries the current value of all the configured curves, and every leaf String in devices starting with $ is evaluated as a JavaScript expression with curves as an Object of the configured, arbitrary keys to those values.

Keep in mind that only Things added to your Wink account may be controlled by Onrein.

Command: status

onrein status

Queries the current status (last_reading in the Wink API) of all devices associated with the account defined in MANIFEST, printing a valid devices config to STDOUT. See onrein start for more information.

TODO

• Query status for only the active set of devices.
• Query status for active curves.
• Updating the active set of devices and curves through the CLI.
• Exporting the active set of devices and curves as a valid manifest.
• Describing arbitrary requests available to devices.
• Reading state from sensors, consumable by devices.
• Triggers - perform actions or state changes based on curve thresholds.
• Support for other vendors, including more maker-friendly providers like Arduino, BeagleBone, and Electric Imp.

What's in a name?

My name is Schoon, which is Dutch for "clean". This is a "daemon", which is can be characterized as an "unclean" spirit, and the Dutch word for unclean is "onrein". Furthermore, onrein behaves like your favorite household imp or spirit, with a mind of its own, working behind the scenes as it sees fit, sometimes turning your lights on and off.