Micro Web UI for LightShowPi

A very simple web page for controlling LightShowPi

To use :

On your Pi,

Go to your base lightshowpi directory, typically /home/pi/lightshowpi > cd $SYNCHRONIZED_LIGHTS_HOME or > cd /home/pi/lightshowpi

Run the web server from the command line type > start_microweb

If at any time you wish to stop Microweb, at the command line type > stop_microweb

On your PC or mobile device,

Open a browser to the following http://<PI>/ where <PI> is the IP address of your Pi

To run microweb at startup, the preferred method is:

> sudo crontab -e

Then add the following lines:

# set enviroment variable # you might need to adjust the path if you did not install # lightshowpi to the default directory SYNCHRONIZED_LIGHTS_HOME=/home/pi/lightshowpi

@reboot $SYNCHRONIZED_LIGHTS_HOME/bin/start_microweb >> $SYNCHRONIZED_LIGHTS_HOME/logs/microweb.log 2>&1

• “Play Next” will only work for more than one song defined in playlist mode.

All other modes will only restart the defined configuration.

• There are four pages available, main, playlist, tools, and configuration Main Page - Main controls for lights and starting the show. Volume control.

  • navigation to other pages by icon or button

  Playlist Page - Songs available in your defined playlist.

  • clicking a song will start it immediately
  • next song to be played is highlighted

  Tools Page - Shutdown/Reboot and individual channel operation

  • this page takes slightly longer to load

  Settings Page - View or Select your config file

  • create any config file in the format overrides*.cfg in your config/ directory and it will be available to use. * can be any character or characters, but you must start with overrides and end with .cfg. microweb will use that file for all operations until changed.
  • edit .playlist files reorder files use selected files
  • upload music files to .playlist directory

Have fun. Ken B