Serve up a dynamic web page for guests with no login

Very cool. Is there a Wiki to read up on how to get started?

Not as such, and I should also add a few caveats about my specific project.

1. I started this project before Indigo added a built-in websocket server, so my plugin is running an "independent" websocket server that (essentially) mimics the built-in one. I've been too lazy to refactor my plugin and JavaScript code to take advantage of the built-in server. My plugin handles all the interaction--serving up Indigo object details, interpreting app requests, etc. which are now effectively unnecessary.

2. My app is specifically written for my Indigo install and wouldn't be something that someone could just install and run on their system. For example, the menus are referring to specific rooms in our house. The app doesn't have the capability to customize the interface through the app and would require someone to redo the entire codebase for their application. I didn't write it with the intention of making it universal.

3. My app has a couple big bugs in it at the moment. I stopped working on it to help out with some other things and haven't got around to working out these kinks. I was in the process of refining the UI when I stopped (see the image). As you can see, things are a bit broken at the moment (it looks like I need to change a battery in my outdoor luminance device though).

It would be nearly impossible to write a How-To article I'm afraid. I use a combination of libraries including VueJS, Vuex, Bootstrap, ChartJS, v-calendar, and others and these aren't even the only ones you can use (Indigo Touch for the web uses Svelte and TypeScript, and I know someone else working with Kivy which is pure Python). I knew absolutely nothing about any of these libraries--including having no JavaScript knowledge--when I got started and I still consider myself a beginner. Someone with a good handle on JavaScript would be able to pick this stuff up pretty easily.

If you're serious, I would suggest boning up on tutorials to write a small SPA to attach to Indigo's websocket server and start small.

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P.S. the nuts and bolts of Indigo's websocket API are contained here:

https://wiki.indigodomo.com/doku.php?id=indigo_2022.2_documentation:api

[jay (support)]

I think the easiest place to start is by checking out the Example HTTP Responder plugin in the Plugin SDK. For anyone new to web development or for anyone familiar with it but not in Python, this will guide you through the initial steps. It has simple examples of serving up static content, handling GET and POST requests, using templates to return dynamic HTML, etc. It also has a TON of comments that explain pretty much everything the plugin is doing. If you have any questions, you can post them on the SDK forum and we'll help you through.

I think the easiest place to start is by checking out the Example HTTP Responder plugin in the Plugin SDK. For anyone new to web development or for anyone familiar with it but not in Python, this will guide you through the initial steps. It has simple examples of serving up static content, handling GET and POST requests, using templates to return dynamic HTML, etc. It also has a TON of comments that explain pretty much everything the plugin is doing. If you have any questions, you can post them on the SDK forum and we'll help you through.

Thanks Jay. This sounds like a fun project.

Thanks both for the tips… This might be when I finally make a plug-in. Yes, I've been writing that for well over eight years now.

While I think I'm almost good at the networking part... presenting a URL that would lead to a web page populated with data from Indigo...actually doing the web page is outside my ability, which is why I find PAGES in Indigo easy enough for a novice like me to build interesting, informative, and useful pages. Just not sure I could mange any of the other ideas suggested here. I'm hoping someone might develop a plugin for this... maybe "Guest Pages Plugin", that would still leverage the "easy" design part of Pages, but with no login authentication, or at least a separate login that wouldn't give the user access to the whole system.

[jay (support)]

You can serve up public (no authentication) static web pages from a plugin, just put the files in this directory:

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MyPlugin.indigoPlugin/Contents/Resources/public/

then access them via:

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https://myreflector.indigodomo.net/com.yourplugins.myplugin/public/

where com.yourplugins.myplugin is the plugin's ID.

Check out the Example HTTP Responder plugin in the SDK for details and directions.

OK

this almost looks easy enough!

Thanks