J5 Photon Setup

Particle.io Photon module running Johnny-Five.

SETUP

• Follow the Particle.io Photon Getting Started instructions.
• Open the Particle.io Editor to get your Device ID (Devices) and Access Token (Settings)
  • See the Particle.io Photon Reference for details on ways to do this via the command line.
• Run npm install and follow the preinstall configuration instructions.
• Run particle cloud login
• Run npm run voodoo_install
• Run npm run voodoo_flash

Everything is now ready to go. To test run node src/examples/blinkLed

References

• Johnny-Five API
• ParticleIO Photon Plugin for Johnny-Five
• VoodooSpark Firmware

DEV NOTES

Adding color to sh files

Color can be adding to any output text via $(tput setaf #) where # is a VALUE from the table below. To reset color use $(tput sgr0).

Example: echo $(tput setaf 1)ERROR$(tput sgr0). Will output ERROR in red.

** Basic tput setaf color table:
Color       #define       Value       RGB
black     COLOR_BLACK       0     0, 0, 0
red       COLOR_RED         1     max,0,0
green     COLOR_GREEN       2     0,max,0
yellow    COLOR_YELLOW      3     max,max,0
blue      COLOR_BLUE        4     0,0,max
magenta   COLOR_MAGENTA     5     max,0,max
cyan      COLOR_CYAN        6     0,max,max
white     COLOR_WHITE       7     max,max,max