Light Teams is an dotnet console application used to manage your Teams status and be able to display it.
The application was tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with a Pimoroni Blinkt!
At this time, Microsoft does not provide a easy way for a user to create a token with its permission, and use it automatically in any application.
The process is still a request from Microsoft, validating a code, and receive a token to use for a short period of time. And refresh it.
Because of this, the start of the application is a little painful.
- You launch the application, and a message to authorize the application is displayed (an url + a code)
- You launch your browser, login with your account, use the provided url, and validate the access with the code
- The application will receive a token to be able to query your Teams status and update the Blinkt! display in consequence
- Red color if you're not available
- Green color if you're available
- Blu color for any unknown status (offline, unknown, ...)
The application will loop to refresh the token when its lifetime expire.
You can read about the full process from here
If the Blinkt! is switched off, the application is not running.
If the Blinkt! show a white animation, this will indicate that the application is waiting for the user to authorize (again) the application to access your Teams status (step 2 in the use case)
To use the application, you will need to create an application registration on Azure.
- create an account on Azure
- go to the
App registrationsservice - register a public app, with a single tenant settings
- in the menu Manage/Authentication enable the setting Allow public client flows
- in the menu Manage/API permissions add the
Presence.Read,offline_accesspermissions - in the menu Overview note your
Application (client) IDand yourDirectory (tenant) ID
Back to the Light Teams application, in the appsettings.json file, update with the IDs you wrote down.
You can launch the application, and see the message to authorize the application.