Areto is an open source automation software designed for conference rooms. We use it to control projectors, lights, audio system, TV screens, etc...

Areto-Server talks to different devices (projectors, extron, light controller, etc) and translates this information to the web frontend. It was initially designed in 2009 to work with a Flash UI and recently in 2015 modified to work with the new areto-ui HTML5 interface.

Note: this installation guide was tested on a Debian 8.0 Jessie

Dependencies installation:

# Install required system packages
apt-get install git mysql-server php5 php5-mysql php-pear php5-curl php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl
# Install required php pear packages
pear install Net_Socket

Create database and import the dump:

mysql -u root -p -e "create database areto;"
mysql -u root -p areto < db/areto.sql

Create the file dao/DaoAccess.php from template:

cp dao/DaoAccess.php.dist dao/DaoAccess.php

Edit the file with your database configuration:

$strHost = 'localhost'
$strUser = 'root'
$strPassword = 'mypassword'
$strDatabase = 'areto'

To start areto-server, use the next script:

bin/areto-daemon.sh start