Internet: Don't use this code, I might be pulling a Rob Ford.

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/sh
# turn off debugging by default, change to 1 for debug log.
debug=0

wget=$(which wget)

# in the future this should get read with uci
# but since we're not exposing the value to change stick with Commotion default.
json_info_host='127.0.0.1'
json_info_port='9090'

json_info_url="http://$json_info_host:$json_info_port/all/"
node_json=$(echo "\r\n" |nc "$json_info_host" "$json_info_port")

# this needs to get added to the luci config page, but until then
# go with a reasonable expected default.
bb_listener_script_path='bigboard-listener.py'

# check if we're running at all, and exit if not
enabled=$(uci get commotion-dash.@dashboard[0].enabled)
if [ $enabled == 'true' ];then
  bb_host=$(uci get commotion-dash.@dashboard[0].gatherer)
  bb_host=$(echo "$bb_host" | sed -e 's/http:\/\///')
  bb_listener_url="http://$bb_host/$bb_listener_script_path"
  if [ "$debug" -eq 1 ]; then
    logger -t commotion.dash.bigboard-send -s "Bigboard enabled"
    logger -t commotion.dash.bigboard-send -s "$bb_listener_url"
  fi
  "$wget" -O --post-data="json=$node_json"  --header=Content-Type:application/json "$bb_listener_url"
  exit 0
# bigboard isn't enabled. just exit
else
  if [ "$debug" -eq 1 ]; then
    logger -t commotion.dash.bigboard-send -s "Bigboard disabled"
  fi
  exit 1
fi