mac-remote-command

Client for embedded systems to facilitate remote configuration.

MAC Remote Command facilitates the configuration of embedded remote and local systems by connecting to an remote web service. A reference implementation is available and free to use at https://mac-commander.deta.dev/. The source code for the web service is available on GitHub at FlantasticDan/mac-commander. MAC Remote Command optionally includes support to display it's detect Local IP and MAC Address via an OLED Status Display.

Installation

For standard use:

pip install mac-remote-command

For optional use with an OLED Status Display:

pip install mac-remote-command[oled]

Note OLED Status Display is only compatiable on Linux devices with an I²C bus.

Use

Currently the remote command functionality of the package is undeveloped. Right now it only offers a pinging service to publically broadcast it's local and public IP address as referenced by it's MAC Address:

python -m mac_remote.ping

Starting Remote Ping On Boot (Ubuntu)

Linux allows Python modules to be executed as part of a startup service. These instructions assume MAC Remote Command is installed in a virtual environment.

1. Create a start-mac-remote-ping.sh script which activates the virtual environment and then starts the MAC Remote Command:

#!/bin/bash
cd <directory>
. venv/bin/activate
python -m mac_remote.ping

2. Modify the script so it is executable: sudo chmod x+ start-mac-remote-ping.sh
3. Create a service the run the script at startup by writing the following file at /etc/systemd/system/mac-remote-ping.service:

[Unit]
Description=MAC Remote Command Pinger
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=<username>
ExecStart=/path/to/start-mac-remote-ping.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

4. Enable the startup service: systemctl enable mac-remote-ping
5. Reboot