I have worked from home for a long time. My home office is right next to the family room. To make things easier to let them know if I was in a meeting, I wanted a visual way to let everyone know. I used a Raspberry Pi W and a Pimoroni Unicorn Hat, some python programming, and some velcro to stick it to the family room TV.
The python application has a built in webserver and GUI interface to both set the status and see what the current status is.
Additionally, I also have an Office Status Stream Deck plugin, which not only let's me set the status but also view the status. Check it out if you have a Stream Deck.
Coming Soon... I also have a LoupeDeck and will be looking into creating a LoupeDeck plugin.
- Raspberry Pi W
- Pimoroni Unicorn Hat (PIM498) - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/pimoroni-ltd/PIM168/6928300
- Note: Other Pimoroni Unicorn Hats may work. If you have another model, let me know if it works.
- Configure your Raspberry Pi so that you can connect over the network
- ssh into the Raspberry Pi
- sudo git clone https://github.com/mattboston/officestatus.git /opt/officestatus
- cd /opt/officestatus
- bash install.sh
- sudo systemctl start officestatus
- By default you can go to http://{raspberry_pi_ip_address} to use the built in GUI.
- You can interact with the built in API
- You can download the OfficeStatus StreamDeck Plugin
- GET /api/status - will give you a JSON output of the current status (free, away, available, busy)
- POST /api/setStatus - If you post JSON in the following format '{"status": "busy"}' using one of the statuses (free, away, available, busy)
- tbd
Please see the LICENSE file for licensing details.
Please see CHANGELOG.md.
- Fork the project
- Make your changes, including tests that exercise the code
- Summarize your changes in CHANGELOG.md.
- Make a pull request
Matt Shields [@mattboston]
