Feather-based Hue lighting controller

A module to "intelligently" control hue lighting.

by Dave Astels

published February 14, 2018, last edited December 31, 2024

posted in Sensors Feather Internet of Things - IOT

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Beginner

Project guide

Using Adafruit IO

For fun I decided to log some things to AdafruitIO:

motion start/end
light level when motion is detected
when lights are turned on/off

Feeds are created in the preamble:

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// Setup MQTT
#define AIO_SERVER      "io.adafruit.com"
#define AIO_SERVERPORT  1883
const char MQTT_SERVER[] PROGMEM    = AIO_SERVER;
const char MQTT_USERNAME[] PROGMEM  = AIO_USER;
const char MQTT_PASSWORD[] PROGMEM  = AIO_KEY;

Adafruit_MQTT_Client mqtt(&client, AIO_SERVER, AIO_SERVERPORT, AIO_USER, AIO_KEY);
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish photocell_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-photocell");
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish motion_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-motion");
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish control_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-control");

// Setup MQTT
#define AIO_SERVER      "io.adafruit.com"
#define AIO_SERVERPORT  1883
const char MQTT_SERVER[] PROGMEM    = AIO_SERVER;
const char MQTT_USERNAME[] PROGMEM  = AIO_USER;
const char MQTT_PASSWORD[] PROGMEM  = AIO_KEY;

Adafruit_MQTT_Client mqtt(&client, AIO_SERVER, AIO_SERVERPORT, AIO_USER, AIO_KEY);
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish photocell_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-photocell");
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish motion_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-motion");
Adafruit_MQTT_Publish control_feed(&mqtt, AIO_USER "/feeds/hue-controller.hue-control");

We make use of those feeds in loop(). For example:

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 if (motion_started) {
  motion_feed.publish((const char*)"started"));
  photocell_feed.publish(light_level));
} else if (motion_ended) {
  motion_feed.publish((const char*)"ended"));
}

 if (motion_started) {
  motion_feed.publish((const char*)"started"));
  photocell_feed.publish(light_level));
} else if (motion_ended) {
  motion_feed.publish((const char*)"ended"));
}