AORURA

AORURA library, LED manager CLI, and emulator.

Protocol

AORURA exposes serial 19200n8 connection. Every command is exactly two bytes:

• XX turns off LED
• A< enables signature aurora LED state
• color byte + ! causes LED to light up with given color
• color byte + * causes LED to flash with given color at .5s interval

AORURA will respond with Y or N byte, depending on whether command was successfully applied or not, respectively.

SS is a special case command that causes AORURA to respond with command representing its current LED state.

AORURA's initial LED state is flashing blue (B*).

Valid color bytes:

• B: blue
• G: green
• O: orange
• P: purple
• R: red
• Y: yellow

Library

aorura is a Rust crate that implements AORURA protocol. Usage example:

use aorura::*;
use failure::*;

fn main() -> Fallible<()> {
  let mut led = Led::open("/dev/ttyUSB0")?;

  led.set(State::Flash(Color::Red))?; // cause LED to flash with red color
  led.set(State::Off)?; // turn off LED

  assert_eq!(led.get()?, State::Off);
  assert_eq!(State::try_from(b"B*")?, State::Flash(Color::Blue));

  Ok(())
}

CLI

aorura-cli is LED manager CLI built on top of aorura.

Usage: aorura-cli <path> [--set STATE]
       aorura-cli --help

Gets, and optionally, sets AORURA LED state.

Options:
  --set STATE  set LED to given state

States: aurora, flash:COLOR, off, static:COLOR
Colors: blue, green, orange, purple, red, yellow

Usage example:

path=/dev/ttyUSB0
original_state=$(aorura-cli $path)

# Enable flashing yellow LED:
aorura-cli $path --set flash:yellow

# Do something time-consuming:
sleep 10

# Revert back to original LED state:
aorura-cli $path --set $original_state

Emulator

aorura-emu is a PTY-based AORURA emulator. It can be used with CLI in lieu of compatible hardware. For example, this emulator is used to make status LED visible on HoloPortOS VM.

Usage: aorura-emu <path>
       aorura-emu --help

Emulates AORURA LED device over a PTY symlinked to given path.

Compatible hardware

• AORURA-3 (HoloPort and HoloPort+)

  

• AORURA-UART-1 (HoloPort Nano)