busylight-for-humans 0.8.1

Control USB connected LED lights, like a human.

BusyLight for Humans™ gives you control of USB attached LED lights from a variety of vendors. Lights can be controlled via the command-line, using a HTTP API or imported directly into your own python projects. Need a light to let you know when a host is down, or when the dog wants out? How about a light that indicates "do not disturb"?

The possibilities are literally endless.

Back to Front, Left to Right
BlyncLight, BlyncLight Plus, Busylight
Blink(1), Flag, BlinkStick

Features

• Control Lights via Command-Line
• Control Lights via Web API
• Five (5!) Supported Vendors:
  • Agile Innovations BlinkStick
  • Embrava Blynclight
  • Kuando BusyLight
  • Luxafor Flag
  • ThingM Blink1
• Supported on MacOS, Linux, probably Windows and BSD too!
• Tested extensively on Raspberry Pi 3b+, Zero W and 4

Basic Install

$ python3 -m pip install busylight-for-humans 

Web API Install

Install uvicorn and FastAPI in addition to busylight:

$ python3 -m pip install busylight-for-humans[webapi]

Linux Post-Install Activities

Linux controls access to USB devices via the udev subsystem and by default denies non-root users access to devices it doesn't recognize. I've got you covered!

You'll need root access to configure the udev rules:

$ busylight udev-rules -o 99-busylights.rules
$ sudo cp 99-busylights.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
$ sudo udevadm control -R
$ # unplug/plug your light
$ busylight on

Command-Line Examples

$ busylight on               # light turns on green
$ busylight on red           # now it's shining a friendly red
$ busylight on 0xff0000      # still red
$ busylight on #00ff00       # now it's blue!
$ busylight blink            # it's slowly blinking on and off with a red color
$ busylight blink green fast # blinking faster green and off
$ busylight --all on         # turn all lights on green
$ busylight --all off        # turn all lights off

HTTP API Examples

First start the busylight API server:

$ busylight serve
INFO:     Started server process [20189]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8888 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

The API is fully documented and available @ https://localhost:8888/redoc

Now you can use the web API endpoints which return JSON payloads:

  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights/on
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights/off
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/light/0/on/purple
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/light/0/off
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights/on
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights/off
  $ curl http://localhost:8888/1/lights/rainbow