krpeacock / power_strip

Web server on a Raspberry Pi to control a power strip

Raspi Power Strip

Hi, and thanks for looking at my project! This is an open source project, so feel free to adapt anything you see for your own applications.

What this is:

A Node.js server that controls a smart power strip. By wiring a Raspberry Pi Zero to five relays housed inside a power strip, this software runs a server on the local network with an API and website to switch each of the outlets on or off.

Furthermore, this readme will document my build process and what it takes to set up a Raspi Power Strip of your own.

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### Credited technologies #### Thanks to the following free and open source projects that made this application possible!

• Node.js

• Express.js

• React.js

• Keith Pickering's Toggle Switch

• Raspbian

• Github

• RPi.GPIO

power_strip's Issues

trouble with nodejs post method

Hey Kyle,

this is a very cool example, I've been playing around with Siri and Alexa, and as usual the google capabilities are far more interesting, but also require a lot of tech expertise. I've gotten the IFTTT piece setup, and so my command ('turn on a raspberry pi led') works great. I can see from the npm log that app.js is being called, but the post method exits with 'invalid password' without calling the python script. the problem appears to be that the parameters from the GET req don't get parsed correctly. I'm no get/post/node expert and so I might be missing something, but I am able to use curl to send a post request directly. Let me know what you think, and I can send details/logs/etc.

thanks, bob