As a part of Home Automation jobs, one of my use case is:
- Know the current time in night (in pitch dark room)
- with following requirements
- I am still sleeping
- I don't want to open my eyes for seeing time on watch/phone
- My phone or watch are 4 meters from bed, I don't want to go to that place to pickup phone/watch
So thought that let me use latest hot/cheap wifi-chip ESP8266 (NodeMCU version) to do this job.
I used a Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR - ~1$) , ESP8226-NodeMCU-Board ( ~4$) and Android phone (~your capacity) for this purpose.
- PIR
- Will sense any movement. I had kept this sensor at back of bed. If I wave my hand near PIR sensor, it will sense and give input to ESP8266 Chip
- ESP8266
- This will work as WiFi Access Point for Android mobile
- Runs embedded firmware to sense the PIR reading & debouncing the PIR signal
- Sends a HTTP call to Android Phone for speaking the time
- Android Phone
- It will connect to WiFi-AP (from above ESP8266 )
- It works as HTTP-Server for requests from ESP8266
- It will run a Speaker service for any incoming requests from ESP8266
- Ensure that works when phone in deep sleep mode
I have finished 3rd version of the code (FW at ESP8266 & Android-App in Smartphone). I will put code and pictures in the weekend.
