A simple Flask-based API to expose the Rackspace DefCon lights.

The API currently supports the following calls:

• /v1/status - Returns the currently set status on the unit.
• /v1/status/ - Sets the DefCon status to a value between 1 and 5.
• /v1/status/up - Increments the DefCon status from the current value.
• /v1/status/down - Decrements the DefCon status from the current value.
• /v1/party - Engage / disengage party mode.

Steps pending.

There are several standalon runtime solutions for Flask - See here. Using Twisted you can run the DefCon API with the following command:

twistd -n web --port 80 --wsgi defcon.app

Configuration is handled in the config.yml file. Both pin_map and strobe_pin fields are specifically used to define the BCM pin locations associated with the various DefCon lights. The defcon_state field is only used to track the last known state of the defcon unit. This value is held in memory but written to file to ensure the defcon unit returns to the same state on restart.

defcon_state: 3
pin_map:
  1: 13
  2: 11
  3: 9
  4: 22
  5: 29
strobe_pin: 0