- PhoneyTV V3.0
- by Jim >> BulldogLowell@gmail.com
- Inspired by Josh >> Deltanu1142@gmail.com
- This Sketch illuminates 6 sets of LED's in a random fashion as to mimic the
- ambient light eminating from a television. It is intended to make an empty
- home (or an empty section of a home) appear to be occupied by someone watching
- TV. As an alternative to a real television left on, this uses less than 1%
- of the electrical energy.
- With the use of the MySensors plugin and gateway, PhoneyTV is intended to
- be used with Vera or Raspberry PI.
- Sketch does not use any delays to create the random blinking as a way to
- assure that communication back to the gateway is as unaffected as possible.
- You can adjust the length of the blink interval and its "twitchyness" by
- modifying the random number generators, if you prefer more/less 'motion' in
- in your unit. The lines are highlighted in the code.
- Sketch takes advantage of available PWM on pins 3, 5 & 6 using the wht/blu LEDs
- to allow fluctuations in the intensity of the light, enhancing the PhoneyTV's
- natural ambient light effect.
- This uses the MySensors.org sketch and will attach itself to your gateway as
- a light, which was another requirement. Because of that requirement, it
- utilizes one digital output pin in the logic (but not physically) and a relay
- is not actually required to use this sketch. Also, the radio pinout remains
- in tact as to preserve the ease of use for MySensor.org users
- Created 12-APR-2014
- Free for distrubution
- Credit should be given to MySensors.org for their base code for relay control
- and for the radio configuration. Thanks Guys.
- 29-May-2014
- Version 2: Simplified the code, removing all redundant relay setup from original
- code. Added an on/off momentary pushputton option to be set up on pin 2. Inproved
- the dark dips for longer duration (can be configured) at intervals.
- 4-Oct-2014
- Version 3:
- Updated for MySensors V1.4
- 5-Nov-2015
- Version 3.1: Turned off Relay functionality of node to eliminate network complexity
- Updated for MySensors V1.4.1
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