Firstly the users open a browser,
and enter the web app page by the web app link,
choose the music and click the button Play
in the web page,
at last the expected track is pushed to the edge node
and the track is played on the speaker connected to the edge node.
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RaspBerry PI (RaspBerry PI 3 has been used for this demo). The RaspBerry PI is also the edge node to which the speaker will be connected.
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A speaker for playing the music.
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A running Kubernetes cluster.
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KubeEdge v1.5+
Note:
when you setup edgecore on the RaspBerry PI, Please set the
mqtt mode
as2
, and replace0.0.0.0
with your Kubernetes master ip address. -
In order to control the speaker and play the expected track, we need to manage the speaker connected to the RaspBerry PI. KubeEdge allows us to manage devices using Kubernetes custom resource definitions. The design proposal is here. Apply the CRD schema yamls available here using kubectl.
git clone https://github.com/kubeedge/examples
With the Device CRD APIs now installed in the cluster, we create the device model and instance for the speaker using the yaml files.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kubeedge/examples/web-demo/kubeedge-web-app/deployments/
kubectl create -f kubeedge-speaker-model.yaml
kubectl create -f kubeedge-speaker-instance.yaml
The KubeEdge Web App runs in a VM on cloud. It can be deployed using a Kubernetes deployment yaml.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kubeedge/examples/web-demo/kubeedge-web-app/deployments/
kubectl create -f kubeedge-web-app.yaml
Cross-complie the PI Player App which will run on the RaspBerry PI and play the expected track.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kubeedge/examples/web-demo/pi-player-app/
export GOARCH=arm
export GOOS="linux"
export GOARM=6
export CGO_ENABLED=1
export CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
go build -o pi-player-app main.go
Make sure the MQTT broker is running on the RaspBerry PI.
Copy the PI Player App binary to the RaspBerry PI and run it.
The App will subscribe to the $hw/events/device/speaker-01/twin/update/document
topic
and when it receives the expected track on the topic, it will play it on the speaker.
At last, you need to copy the music files into the folder /home/pi/music/
on the RaspBerry PI.
The music file name is like .mp3, for example: 1.mp3
The PI Player App will issue the omxplayer
to play music,
please make sure the omxplayer
is installed on the RaspBerry PI.
If not, please see the following link to setup omxplayer
.
https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/software_utilities/media-players/omxplayer
./pi-player-app
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Visit web app page by the web app link.
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Choose the music you want to play, and then click the button
Play
. The track info is pushed to the RaspBerry PI and the music is played on the speaker. -
Click the button
stop
to stop the music, the music is stopped on the speaker.