Protoflap

Controls the welcome room Vestaboard directly, bypassing their cloud.

Setup

SSH into the Vestaboard using the root key, ie:

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/vestaboard root@10.139.85.133

Script

Clone the script:

# git clone https://github.com/Protospace/protoflap.git

Test it:

# cd protoflap/
# python protoflap.py

Supervisor

To run the script automatically, install supervisor:

# apt install supervisor
# touch /etc/supervisor/conf.d/protoflap.conf
# vim /etc/supervisor/conf.d/protoflap.conf

Set config to:

[program:protoflap]
user=root
directory=/root/protoflap
command=/usr/bin/python /root/protoflap/protoflap.py
stopsignal=INT
stopasgroup=true
killasgroup=true
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/var/log/protoflap.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=10MB
stdout_logfile=/var/log/protoflap.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=10MB

Load changes:

# supervisorctl reread; supervisorctl update
# supervisorctl status