A general purpose Azure IoT Central powered light control system for Raspberry Pis.
The aim of this project is to provide a generic application that can be installed on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian to control lights using Azure IoT Central.
The project will consist of:
- An install script that installs the code on the Pi, including any libraries for lights, then configures it to connect to an IoT Central app
- The software to control various lights including the Pimoroni Unicorn pHAT, Pimoroni Blinkt, NeoPixel strips, and WS2812 LED strips.
The control software will connect to Azure IoT Central using a pre-defined application template. It will be sent color requests as IoT Central commands. These requests will be in one of a few formats:
- Single color values - all the LEDs/pixels will change to this color
- An array of color values - the colors in this array will be applied to the LEDs/pixels in order, repeating if there are more LEDs/pixels than array elements
- Time offsets and single colors - a timer loop will work through these colors, lighting all the LEDs/pixels in each color, then waiting the time offset to apply the new color
- Time offsets and arrays of color values - a timer loop will work through these colors, lighting all the LEDs/pixels using the color array, then waiting the time offset to apply the new color
The first version will support these lights:
Instructions for connecting the lights will be in the hardware-instructions folder.