WiLED is a project that aims to create a simple but highly effective control system for home (and commercial) lighting applications.
The main targets are initially stand-alone lamps, i.e. those that connect to a general purpose power outlet. Future goals also include embedded fixed lighting.
The target hardware is (Arduino-powered) ESP8266 modules for the end devices, and a Feather M0 coupled to a Raspberry Pi Zero W for the coordinator.
This repository provides the code for WiLED. See the WiLED-PCB repository for the circuit schematics.
The code is written for Arduino-powered devices - at the moment, the ESP8266 and the Feather M0.
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The overall goal for WiLED is to provide a flexible system for lighting control, powered by MQTT.
The current system plan is to use an RFM-69 radio to connect the lighting devices together, and then have a coordinator that interfaces the radio link to an MQTT broker.
- Extensible and open system
- MQTT interface for integration with other systems
- Open source schematics and software
- Ability to control multiple light outputs with a single switch or dial, through groups
- Separation of lighting output device and control input device, to allow for flexible reconfiguration
- Option to have hardwired controller so lighting is usable even with failure in radio network
- Tested performance metrics for switching latency tm
- Bindings for OpenHAB
The Rotary library for Arduino, by Ben Buxton, has been used and the files Rotary.h and Rotary.cpp are included in this project. See here for the original source. It is GPLv3 licensed.
Additionally, the wonderful RadioHead library from Mike McCauley and AirSpayce has been used via an inclusion through PlatformIO. See here for the homepage. It is GPLv2 licensed (not clear if this is GPLv2 only or GPLv2+).
This project is released under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 (or later). Please see LICENSE for details.