Web Service Wrapper

[eman]

Hi People,



I have created a Web Service wrapper to further extend the Blync SDK.



This allows any application (web, forms) hosted on any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) to control a Blync light by calling the web service endpoints.



I haven't figured out a good business application for it yet, but I enjoy hosting the web service on the workstations of my colleagues and watch them go crazy when I take control of their Blync light



It might help build a physical dashboard that works with system monitoring software like SCOM or Nagios which can execute the web service to display flashing red lights in the office when critical systems go down.



Well I hope it helps. Please let me know if you find this useful or need help installing the web service.



Best Regards,



Emmanuel

Attachments:

BlynclightWCF.zip (15.58 KB)

[Anton]

Hi Emmanuel,

I like what you have done here. My company might be able to benefit from this. Is it possible to provide some instruction on how to install this web service?

Regards from Munich

[eman]

Hi Anton,

Instructions as follows:

1)Extract the zip file to a folder.
2)Open IIS Manager and right click on the “Sites” node and select “Add Website..”, then point to the folder in step 1). Specify a port number if you like.
3)Voila - your Blync web service is running.

The web service can be consumed using this endpoint URL http://<ServerName>:<PortNumber>/BlynclightService.svc
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You'll be able to see all the various methods to control the Blync light from there.

I'll think about making an install package for this if it makes things easier.

Best Regards,

Emmanuel

[Anton]

Thank you Emmanuel.

This is a very fun tool

Best Regards

[tskunka]

Does the website go to the root of the extracted files or the level below where the .svc file is? I'm not having luck getting this running under IIS under Windows 8.1. This should be easy but it is being a pain. Thanks.

[Anton]

Hi tskunka,

I made the website path point to the Blynclight folder not the BlynclightWCF folder from the ZIP. So when you open the website in IIS you see a bin folder within the website only.

Did you try that? Are you getting errors?

Best Regards

[tskunka]

Got a bit farther I think... but still no luck. This is a spare PC I have... it is joined to a domain but logged in with my dot.net account... which has admin... but this feels like a perms thing.

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Detailed Error Information:

Module
IIS Web Core
Notification
BeginRequest
Handler
Not yet determined
Error Code
0x80070021
Config Error
This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false".
Config File
\\?\C:\Blynclight\web.config

Requested URL
http://localhost:82/
Physical Path
C:\Blynclight
Logon Method
Not yet determined
Logon User
Not yet determined


Config Source:
20: <system.webServer>
21: <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
22: </system.webServer>

[eman]

Hi Tsunka,

For IIS 8, please turn on the following Windows feature through Control Panel -> Programs:

.NET Framework -> WCF Services -> HTTP Activation.

That should solve your issue.

Of course, please ensure that the user account running the Application Pool has Read and Execute access to the folder hosting the web service files.

Please let me know if this solves your issue.

Best Regards,

Emmanuel

[pete]

Hi eman, nice work!
I also get the 500 Server error and don't know why.
Do you by any chance have a step by step instructions on what exactly to do?
I did all the steps above

[pete]

tskunka:

Click "Start button"
in the search box, enter "Turn windows features on or off"
in the features window, Click: "Internet Information Services"
Click: "World Wide Web Services"
Click: "Application Development Features"
Check (enable) the features. I checked all but CGI.

This will solve that problem, but now i am getting another one

[pete]

ok next steps open command prompt an put those commands:

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir

now its working for me

[pete]

Emmanuel could you provide a sample web service call?
Somehow I cant figure out how to change the color ^^

//EDIT got it working now, did you built in multi device feature?

[eman]

Apr 15, 2014 7:38:22 GMT pete said:

Emmanuel could you provide a sample web service call?
Somehow I cant figure out how to change the color ^^

//EDIT got it working now, did you built in multi device feature?

sorry for the slow reply pete.

great to hear you got it working.

good idea on multi-device feature. I dont think the SDK provides multi-device support.

I posted to see if there is any movement on this.