Ever get out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and didn't want to break your toe on the dresser? Good. This is for you. When you put your feet on the floor a motion detector senses that and turns on a strip of LEDs under your bed so you can see where you are going.
This repo is software to use a Raspberry Pi, Neopixels, PIR sensors, and logic in order to turn on LEDs mounted underneath a bed when motion is detected AND it is dark outside. The software does the following:
- Calculates the civil twilight values based on latitude and longitude
- Detects motion using PIR sensors
- Turns the LEDs on when it is dark outside
- Turns the LEDs off after a specified time with no movement detected
- Allows push buttons to override the behavior
Please find more information on the hardware on my blog.
This project assumes the use of a Raspbian-based distro. Install the necessary dependencies.
cd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git scons swig python-pip python-setuptools
git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x.git
cd rpi_ws281x
scons
sudo easy_install pytz
sudo pip install astral
cd
git clone https://github.com/dhowdy/BedMotionLEDs.git
Add a line to the autostart shell script file in your /etc/rc.local script.
You will likely have to adjust the GPIO pins in the software to reflect the actual GPIO pins that you use.
You will need to adjust the Lat/Long coordinates to your home town in the software.
You will need to adjust the color multipliers to achieve the color that you would like. For example:
Red is Color(int(round(fadeLoop * 0)), fadeLoop, int(round(fadeLoop * 0)))
Blue is Color(int(round(fadeLoop * 0)), int(round(fadeLoop * 0)), fadeLoop)
A warm yellowish color is Color(int(round(fadeLoop * .5)), fadeLoop, int(round(fadeLoop * .1)))
Basically, you'll need to move the 'fadeLoop' variable to your brightest RGB (this implementation uses GRB ordering) color and adjust the proportion of the other two colors. In the last example, G will be 1/2 or R while B will be 1/10 of R. This was a simple and fast implementation that worked for 99% of my uses.
This code is not very polished. There are still a lot of references and variables that are not used. I probably won't be cleaning these up. But I'm happy to accept pull requests for anyone that wants to improve on this idea.
This repo also includes a copy of https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x.git. It's likely that not all of these files are needed. Keeping them here anyway.