Raspberry PI NeoPixel to mqtt bridge

Very simple mqtt client app in Python that allows control of NeoPixel ring using mqtt.

based on https://github.com/BioBoost/saito_mqtt_bed_neopixels

Makes use of Jeremy Garffs neopixel lib for the Rpi. More info at:

• https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi?view=all
• https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x

Installing rpi_ws281x

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git scons swig
cd ; git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x.git
cd rpi_ws281x
scons
cd python
sudo python setup.py install

Other requirements

You also need jsonschema and paho mqtt libs.

sudo pip install jsonschema
sudo pip install paho-mqtt

Hardware

Currently library defaults to GPIO10

OPENHAB2

see openhab2 directory for basic examples

Autostart on Raspberry Pi

using systemd:

cd /opt/neopixel_mqtt
chmod +x app.py

sudo su
cp neopixel_mqtt.service /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable neopixel_mqtt.service
systemctl start neopixel_mqtt.service