Web Controlled BedsideLamps

This is a project I've been working on that controls my two bedside lamps with led's I've hacked onto them using a Raspberry Pi underneath my bed.

The project is currently using GPIO pin's 17 and 22 but it's easy enough to edit them to your liking.

Here is a album of the project.

Dependencies

You're going to need pi-blaster by sarfata.

Installation

All you need to do is run the bedsidelamp.py file.

How to use

All you need to do is make GET requests to your Raspberry Pi to the port (default:8080) with the attributes of brightness and fade.

The brightness attribute is a percentage value. For example:

• brightness=50
  • would be 50% brightness.
• brightness=82
  • would be 82% brightness.
    • and so on.

And the fade attribute is the amount of seconds it will take to go from one brightness to another. For example:

• fade=30
  • would take 30 seconds to get from the current brightness to the new set brightness.
• fade=60
  • would take one minute.
• fade=300
  • would take 5 minutes.
• fade=600
  • would take 10.
    • and so on.

*ps. If the fade attribute is missing from the GET request. It defaults to 10 seconds.

Examples

Here are a few examples.

• IP:8080/?brightness=70&fade=60

  • With an initial brightness of 0. This would take one minute to go from 0% to 70% brightness.

• IP:8080/?brightness=5&fade=120

  • With an initial brightness of 100. This would take two minutes to go from 100% to 5% brightness.

• IP:8080/?brightness=0

  • With an initial brightness of 75. This would take 10 seconds to go from 0% to 70% brightness.
  • Note! The fade attribute is missing and the program defaults to 10 second fade time.

Extras

I've also created a little driver board that sit's on top of the Raspberry Pi too! I'll probaby upload the schematic at some point when I get a chance.