SoundWeb Control

This is a web based control panel for Hiqnet Devices that compiles the AudioArchitect .panel format into a nextjs component. It has build in user management It communicates using a python based websocket server that speaks to HiQnet devices, e.g. SoundWeb Blue Units

Prerequisites

Getting Started

Setting up the docker containers

1. Download the docker-compose.yml into the installation directory
2. Create a directory called data inside the installation directory
3. Copy the .panel file into the data directory and name it App.panel
4. Inside the installation directory run docker compose -p soundweb-control up -d
5. Edit the config as instructed below
6. Restart the containers

Configuring the panel

1. Enter the data directory
2. Generate a secure session cookie password using a secure generator such as https://1password.com/password-generator/, it is recommended to generate a 100 character password for security, this password is used to encrypt the session cookies and does not need to be remembered
3. Set the address and port of the python server with a protocol ws://, e.g. 192.168.1.1:8765 (8765 is the default port)
4. If the panel will be accessed over https, set useSSL to true (an exteral proxy server (e.g. Nginx) will have to be used to handle https traffic and proxy request to the nodejs server)
5. Generate a secure HMAC secret for the websocket in the same way as the session cookie password, again it is recommended to generate a 100 character password

Configuring the python server

Edit data/backend-config.json
Copy in the secret value for the auth token HMAC from the panel config, otherwise the websocket will be unable to connect.
Enter the ip address of the main HiQnet device to handle control messages inside the default node
Add additional nodes for other HiQnet devices with their Node ID in hex as the name, DO THIS FOR EVERY SOUNDWEB DEVICE
If you do not add all the nodes in this config file, you could cause SoundWeb devices to freeze and crash.

Example config:

{   
    "authTokenSecret": "authTokenSecret from configuring the panel",
    "nodes": {
        "default": "192.168.1.2",
        "0x1": "192.168.1.2",
        "0x2": "192.168.1.3",
        "0x3": "192.168.1.4"
    },
    "subscription_rate_ms": 100,
    "websocket_port": 8765,
    "authTokenSecret"
}

The subscription rate should be left at 100ms, but can be increased if the subscription rate is a bit too fast causing devices to seem laggy
Leave the websocket port at 8765, change this port inside docker-compose.yml

Resetting the users

If the admin account password is forgotten the user database can be manually edited or reset The user database is users.json If you want to reset the user database, you just need to delete users.json and restart the NodeJS server

The default login is admin admin

Attributions

The icon file (favicon.ico) is by GuillenDesign (Paulo Guillen)
Licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
From: https://icon-icons.com/icon/control-panel/43465