master-base

Master Base Station has been built for the RVASec conference by members at HackRVA.

The Master Base Station communicates with the RVASec conference attendees' badges over IR to schedule LaserTag Games. Additionally, The Base Station can help attendees transmit code to their badge.

Connecting A badge over serial

The Base station expects a badge to be connected over usb on /dev/ttyACM0

Config File

A config file can be created here: /etc/basestation/baseconfig.yaml

This is were you can override variables such as:

leaderBoard_API: "http://192.168.1.2:5000/api/"
serialPort: /dev/ttyACM0

note: default values exist if a config file is not present.

Start Up Script

The start up script will compile and run a binary called basestation

$ sh build_and_run.sh