Gladys is a home automation assistant that allows you to control your smart devices from a single platform. In this tutorial, we will go over the steps necessary to install Gladys on macOS.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
To install Gladys, open Terminal and run the following command:
npm install -g gladys-assistant
This will install Gladys on your system.
To start Gladys, open Terminal and run the following command:
gladys start
This will start the Gladys server.
To access Gladys, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080
.
If you want to access Gladys from another device on your network, replace localhost
with the IP address of your macOS device.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gladys on your macOS device. You can now control your smart devices from a single platform.
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