SpheroC

Sphero SPRK+/BB8 robot controller with web controls (Node.js/Express.js)

Version 0.0.1

Old Sphero/SPRK doesn't supported, only BLE models

If you have Ollie, try to add name into selection into discover.js file, it should work as well

it should support any number of robots (I saw somewhere that MAC supports up to 6), but I tested it only on 1 SPRK+ robot

I developed it on MAC OSX, but should work on any platform with Node.js and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)

"noble": "git://github.com/jacobrosenthal/noble.git#highsierra", "noble": "https://github.com/Timeular/noble-mac.git",

Run on MAC OSX

• Install Node.js.
• Clone/Pull this project from github https://github.com/rvolkov/spheroc
• Run npm install in project directory
• Run bower install in project directory
• Set your web token crypto key into app/config.js (any string you only know)
• Set your admin logins/passwords into app/config.js
• Enable Bluetooth on your MAC
• Run node discover from the project directory, shake your robot to enable BLE, it will find all your SPRK+/BB8 robots and will create file sprkp.json, it is sniffing for a BLE devices for 20 seconds after that writes down all the detected SPRK+/BB8 devices into sprkp.json file and exits
• To reset device to initial state run node sleep, do it every time if you can't stop robot or spheroc is unable to detect robot (after robot will shut down exit from utility by Ctrl+C) - it will possibly reset all the detected robots, but I didn't check more than 1
• Run nodemon to start project locally
• Point browser to http://127.0.0.1:3002
• Enter login/password from app/config.js to access
• Shake robot to connect to the Bluetooth
• If you can't connect, exit from web app, run node sleep, exit from it, run nodemon again
• If you need to work with RESTbox-controller - set 'rbox_server' and 'rbox_secret' into rbox.js to match with RESTbox-controller host and configuration

Enjoy!