perl

velserver is written in perl and developped on Linux. But it cal also run on Windows.

I used "Strawberry Perl 5.26.1.1 (64bit)" downloaded from http://strawberryperl.com/. Just install it with default options.

Get the velserver code#

Go to https://github.com/StefCoene/velserver and download the zip file. Direct link: https://github.com/StefCoene/velserver/archive/master.zip).

Extract it to C:\velserver so you have the folder bin as C:\velserver\bin.

Change all occurences of "/home/velbus/velserver" to "C:/velserver" in bin/logger.pl, bin/commands.pl and bin/webserver.pl:

use lib C:/velserver/lib" ;

$global{Config}{BaseDir} = "C:/velserver" ;

If you don't have a mysql server, you can use an internal database to store the information. To do this, rename etc/mysql.cfg to etc/mysql.cfg.disabled.

TCP server for Velbus

See also https://github.com/StefCoene/velserver/wiki/TCP-server-for-Velbus

Open config file etc/vebus.cfg and change the HOST and PORT variables to the HOST and PORT where your TCP server for Velbus is running.

Run the scripts.

As test, run webserver.pl and logger.pl in 2 command prompts. So open a Command Prompt and run 'perl C:/velserver/bin/logger.pl' and in an other Command Prompt 'C:/velserver/bin/logger.pl'.

Make sure the scripts don't give an error. You can abort the scripts.

Run the script as a service

Download nssm from http://nssm.cc/download.

Once downloaded and extracted, open a Command Prompt, go to the extraced directory and execute 'nssm install.

Create a new services with these settings:

• Path = C:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl
• Arguments = C:/velserver/bin/logger.pl
• Service name = Velserver_logger

And a second:

• Path = C:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl
• Arguments = C:/velserver/bin/webserver.pl
• Service name = Velserver_webserver

Go to the services control panel and start the 2 new services.

Voila, done, you should be able to go to http://localhost/ and start using velserver.