Visual Poi Starter

Start Pyroterra Lighttoys Visual Poi through USB connection (serial port). This library can be used as a CLI (command line interface) or consumed by your own code.

Install

This library uses the Node + NPM package serialport for serial port communication. It supports multiple platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Raspberry PI Linux. For platform specific installation details please refer to their README.

To install the dependencies of visual-poi-starter type in your terminal:

npm install

Usage as CLI

Inside this project folder type:

node cli

If you are missing some rights to access the serial port, you will receive something similar to: Error: Cannot open /dev/ttyACM0 Try to run it as root sudo node cli (Linux + Mac OS) or in a root shell (Windows).

Usage in your code

var poiStarter = require('visual-poi-starter');

poiStarter.findPois(function() {
  poiStarter.startSequence(1); // start sequence 1
});