bisitariak & koloretsua

those scripts are used to made a lamp who illuminates with various colors (generated based on visitor's IP address) when someone visit my websites (detection based on nginx logs)

to use them, you need a MQTT broker
if you want to use a public broker: https://www.maqiatto.com/

'bisitariak' means 'visitors' and 'koloretsua' means 'colorful' in Basque

bisitariak

this script monitors nginx access logs and advertises any new visits to a MQTT broker
it comes with it's sibbling script (koloretsua) wich turn on a LED strip for each visitor, using an ESP microcontroller

TODO:

• properly detect any new visits
  • FIXME: to test properly
• extract their associated IP address
• generate a color based on this IP address
• advertise new visitors (and their associated color) on the MQTT broker

koloretsua

this script is using CircuitPython and MiniMQTT

install

• flash an ESP card with CircuitPython (i used a Wemos S2 mini)
• put the files from the koloretsua/lib directory in the lib directory of your ESP card
• put the code.py file in the root of your ESP
• copy the settings.toml.example file into the root of your ESP, rename it to settings.toml and configure it