Please note, the Node.js + Python3 program is no longer being actively developed, and is stored on the repo for referencing purposes. Please refer to my newer and better golang implementation

I used the following technologies to make this website: The HTML is loosely based on Gokul S Krishnan's simple_alarm. jQuery is a dependency of Bootstrap. node.js provides the RESTful services needed to run the UI. npm is the package manager for node.js I needed to install various tools for the project.

This server runs the web server that controls the Alarm Configuration files. There are 4 of them: alarm1.json, alarm2.json, alarm3.json, and alarm4.json. The main alarm clock function will use the configuraton files as the basis for when to run an alarm and to decide when an alarm was enabled or disabled.

If you haven't cloned the main Atomic Clock Project

$sudo apt-get install git
$git clone https://github.com/gilgameshskytrooper/Prometheus.git

Next, we want to make sure you have node.js and npm:

$sudo apt-get install node npm

Next we want to install the node app dependencies for express, body-parser, and jsonfile. Furthermore, we will need another node application called forever to run the web server as a daemon (basically useful for running this in the background without having to keep a terminal window open)

$cd Prometheus/archive/webinterface
$sudo node install
$sudo node install forever -g

At this point, we will have everything we will need to run the server.

The most basic way to run the server is

$cd /path_to_webinterface_root/
$node server.js

However, if you ssh'ed into your Pi, or close the terminal window by mistake, this will close the web server since it will be running as a main process on the terminal window.

Instead, I suggest running the server through forever which will run the web server in the background, if your ssh connection were to time out, or disconnect, it would still be running.

$cd /path_to_webinterface_root/
$sudo forever start server.js

If you are not running the server for the first time, you will need to add the -a tag (for append log file rather than create new) to the forever command or else forever will throw an error due to there being a log file already.

$sudo forever start -a server.js

To test your server, use any device with a web browser and connect to 111.111.111:3000 (where 111.111.111 is the IP of your Pi. If you don't know this value, go to your Pi and run sudo ifconfig. It will be the value listed as inet addr:). Make sure you add ":3000" after the address in the browser as this specifies you will be sending the get request to port 3000 of your Pi

Congratulations, you now have a fully functional Atomic Clock User Interface.

When the requested the root 111.111.111:3000, it will send index.html, it loads it from the alarm configuration files: alarm1.json, alarm2.json, alarm3.json, and alarm4.json.

When the user fills out the form, it will update the configuration files and reload the page. Note: You cannot send the form from the index.html link, you must use the 111.111.111:3000