Space API for K4CG

The software serves the Space API JSON document upon a HTTP request. The document itself is provided as a template to which the latest sensor values will be added. The sensor values are collected from an InfluxDB that will be continiously updated from HomeAssistant.

Endpoints

• GET /status.json: Request the current space status compliant to the Space API JSON schema.
• GET /health: Get health information, basically checks the connection to the database. Returns 200 if everything is ok, and 418 in case the connection could not be established.

Configuration

The configuration takes place within the file config.json:

{
    "database": {
        "connection": "", // Connection string, e.g. 'http://localhost:8086'
        "database": "", // Name of database
        "username": "", // Username for auth
        "password": "" // Password for auth
    },
    "server": {
        "hostname": "localhost", // Local IP/hostname to use for serving data
        "port": 3000 // Local port to use for serving data
    },
    "sensors": {
        "door": {
            "entity": "", // Entity ID of sensor within database
            "unit": "state", // Unit of measurement within database
            "validity": 0 // Period of validity in seconds, set to 0 to disable check
        },
        "temperature": {
            "id": [ // List of sensors
                {
                    "entity": "", // Entity ID of sensor within database
                    "location": "" //  Human readable location of sensor
                }
            ],
            "unit": "°C", // Unit of measurements within database
            "validity": 0 // Period of validity in seconds, set to 0 to disable check
        },
        "humidity": {
            "id": [ // List of sensors
                {
                    "entity": "", // Entity ID of sensor within database
                    "location": "" // Human readable location of sensor
                }
            ],
            "unit": "%", // Unit of measurement within database
            "validity": 0 // Period of validity in seconds, set to 0 to disable check
        }
    },
    "cache_time": {
        "status.json": 0, // Time in seconds to cache values for /status.json endpoint, set to 0 to disable caching
        "health": 0 // Time in seconds to cache values for /health endpoint, set to 0 to disable caching
    }
}

The template for the Space API JSON document is defined within the file template.json. You may have a look in the Space API specification on how to fill the fields.

Run

By default, the app will look for both the configuration (config.json) and template (template.json) files in the current working directory.

In case the files are located somewhere different, you can use the optional commandline arguments or their corresponding environment variables to provide the correct paths. Just run ./k4status --help to show their usage.

Next to the file paths, you can adjust the log level. You may use the environment variable RUST_LOG to configure anything other than the default level info.

Build

Building the software requires a Rust toolchain to be installed. If so, the build process is as easy as cargo build [--release].

Two minimalistic tests are provided to check wether the configuration and the template files can be parsed. Run cargo test to execute the tests.