Ambient: Control your Ambient Orb or Beacon

Ambient version 0.1.0

This package contains Ambient, a package that allows a Ruby program to control an Ambient Orb using the Ambient Devices web based API.

Download

The latest version of Ambient can be found at

• rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=753

Installation

GEM Installation

Download and install Ambient with the following.

gem install --remote ambient

Online Resources

• www.ambientdevices.com/

• www.ambientdevices.com/developer/OrbWDK.pdf

Prerequisites

• You must own an Ambient Orb or Beacon

• You must be in the Ambient coverage area

• You must register your device with Ambient

• You must have a Premium account

• You must have your device ‘tuned’ to the developer channel (which involves registering again to get access)

Simple Example

Ambient::Orb.new(:id => 'ABC-DEF-GHI', :color => :red).update

License

Ambient is available under an MIT-style license.

:include: MIT-LICENSE

Support

The ambient homepage is ambient.rubyforge.org. You can find the Ambient RubyForge page at rubyforge.org/projects/ambient.

Feel free to submit commits or feature requests.

For other information, feel free to contact me tom@craz8.com.

Other stuff

Author

Tom Fakes <tom@craz8.com>

License

Copyright 2005 by Tom Fakes. Released under an MIT-style license. See the MIT-LICENSE file included in the distribution.

Warranty

This software is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose.