This program will:

• Listen for rsyslog streams on a given TCP port
• Attempt to parse out a MAC address and action from the stream
• Build HTTP POST request to web service, forwarding on details

It runs as a system daemon. So, you can think of it like a proxy that translates ugly syslog messages into web service requests.

This blog post provides an explanation and video demonstration.

The configured web service will receive POST requests in the format:

https://some.api/<action>/<mac-address>

For example:

https://my-wifi.com.au/join/12:d4:ab:bd:64:f9
https://my-wifi.com.au/leave/03:ff:cb:34:9a:00

This allows us to trigger things like:

• Songs on the Sonos
• Slack messages on entrance
• Standup attendance / lateness logging
• Slack bot to determine if someone is currently in the office

Mapping of MAC address to Human is left to the web service.

The binary can be run as:

$ wrestlers-adapter [listen_host=127.0.0.1] [listen_port=10514] [forward_host=127.0.0.1] [forward_port=80]