phant is a modular logging tool developed by SparkFun Electronics for collecting data from the Internet of Things. phant is the open source software that powers data.sparkfun.com.

If you would like to learn more about phant, please visit phant.io for usage & API docs.

phant is a npm package, and requires the latest version of node.js.

Once you have node.js installed, you can install phant by running npm install -g phant from your favorite terminal. Using the -g (global) flag will make the phant executable available in your PATH.

Now you can start phant:

$ phant
phant http server running on port 8080
phant telnet server running on port 8081

This launches a telnet server for stream creation, and a http server for data input & output. You can now open a separate window, and you should be able to create a stream by connecting to the local telnet server.

$ telnet localhost 8081
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
            .-.._
      __  /`     '.
   .-'  `/   (   a \
  /      (    \,_   \
 /|       '---` |\ =|
` \    /__.-/  /  | |
   |  / / \ \  \   \_\  jgs
   |__|_|  |_|__\
   never   forget.

Welcome to phant!
Type 'help' for a list of available commands

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In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Copyright (c) 2014 SparkFun Electronics. Licensed under the GPL v3 license.