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Blink1Control in Qt

Blink1Control is the primary user-level application for controlling blink(1). It is an event-based system, where events on your computer or on the Net trigger color patterns on the blink(1).

It can receive events from:

  • IFTTT
  • various email services using IMAP/POP/Gmail
  • execute scripts or check files
  • hardware monitors like CPU, battery, RAM

This verison of Blink1Control supercedes the Mac-specific and Windows-specific versions in the "mac" and "win" directories.

Building and Deploying the Blink1Contol Qt application

Blink1Control is built using Qt-5.5 on Mac and Windows

On Windows you need to install:

On Mac OS X you need to install:

  • QT-5.5 for Mac
  • Xcode

On Ubuntu, you need to install:

  • QT-5.5 for Linux (64-bit)
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential
  • sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev libgl-dev
  • Note: Linux version doesn't work correctly in many weird ways

To build, open up QTCreator and press "build".

Be sure to remove the build-blink1control-Desktop_Qt_5_3... directory before building to completely rebuild all files.

Once a release version is built. You can create deployable zip bundles with:

  • ./deploy-mac.sh
  • ./deploy-win.sh

You may need to edit the variables at the top of those scripts to match your Qt install.

To build a Windows installer, get Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php ) and use Blink1Control.iss setup file

To build a Mac OS X DMG, get Aolor DMG Maker (http://dmgmakermac.aolor.com/ ) and use Blink1Control.dmgdoc setup file.

Blink1Control and libcurl

Blink1Control contains pre-build versions of the libcurl library. It is located in:

  • blink1control/libcurl-mac
  • blink1contorl/libcurl-win

On Mac, we build this library statically: 0. Download libcurl sources

  1. brew install openssl --universal which says that you get: LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include
  2. tar xvzf curl-7.43.0.tar.gz && cd curl-7.43.0
  3. CFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=10.8 ./configure --disable-shared --with-darwinssl --prefix=${HOME}/projects/curl/libcurl-mac
  4. make && make install # (puts it in 'tst1' directory)
  5. rm -rf ~/projects/blink1/qt/blink1control/libcurl-mac
  6. mv ${HOME}/projects/curl/libcurl-mac ~/projects/blink1/qt/blink1control

Location of Blink1Control config file:

On Windows:

  • %APPDATA%\ThingM\Blink1Control.ini

On Mac OS X:

  • $HOME/.config/ThingM/Blink1Control.ini