This is a quick blog post which quickly show the features that are displayed on the Grove RGB LCD screen, which is connected to the Intel Edison.The pot and buttons are used to scroll through the features and set the Alarms..
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Default Screen, which shows today's date and the Alarms set |
Alarm1 - use the POT and the buttons to set the Alarm |
Alarm2 |
Displayed the inside temperature, based on Grove Temperature sensor added to the back of the clock. |
Display outside temperature and humidity from the Openweathermap.org API |
Press the Green button to show the current weather condition |
Press the yellow button to show the wind speed |
For the Air Quality sensor to give a reading it takes it about 3 mins to Heat up.. |
Display Air Quality from the sensor |
Showing IP address |
Use the power of IFTTT to Turn ON/OFF HUE lamps |
HUE lamp OFF |
Cycle through colors on the HUE lamp using an IFTTT recipe, ideal for the Friday evening.. |
- Show Date - the Grove LCD display shows today's date and times at which the alarms are set. For the time, I still plan to use the analog clock in the center
.. - Alarm 1 and Alarm 2 – Using the pot with the combination of the buttons just below the LCD screen you can setup alarms, which will use the grove buzzer connected to the Edison mounted at the back of the clock. To make it more interesting you can also play a song via the speaker for the second alarm.
- Inside Temperature – when you move the pot slightly to the right, this shows the current temperature at home. Here a future plan is if the temperature is >24 C, automatically turn on the air conditioner at home via an MQTT message. For this I plan to use an ESP8266 and relay to switch air conditioner ON/OFF.
- Air Quality at home– Basically this shows the short description of the air quality sensor. The description is based on the Grove Air quality sensor documentation and the python UPM example. Hitting the green button will show you the value of the gas sensor value.
- Outside Weather – this shows weather details from openweathermap.org API, for more details check out the blog post at - Reading out the weather using eSpeak
- Temperature and Humidity – displays temperature and humidity in your town/city
- Weather condition – press the green button to display weather condition
- Wind speed – press yellow button to get the wind speed
- Show IP address – Its maintenance time !! Now instead log into your router to check the IP address assigned to the Intel Edison, or if you have setup a static IP address and are forgetful then you can get the IP address printed on the LCD screen. For more details check out the post at -Showing IP address and temperature on Grove LCD
- Time to work – this feature uses the Google Maps Distance Matrix API to display the time to work, for more info setup checkout the blog post at - Commute time to work using Google Maps API.For more info - Commute time to work using Google Maps API
- HUE Lamps on/off - I will be mostly using this feature to switch off all the HUE lamps at home before heading out in the morning. Also, note there is about a seconds delay once you hit the button and the lights turn off. For this feature I am using IFTTT, for more info on setting up IFTTT recipe using maker channel checkout -Unleash the power using IFTTT
- HUE Cycle through colors – this is a feature that you can use on a friday night when you have guests over, or if you have a colored HUE lamp in your bedroom you can build similar features like the LED panel diffusers , for example if you have more than 10 unread email have the HUE lamp turn red.
For the code checkout the github repository folder at -https://github.com/CJAndrade/Upcycled-Clock/tree/master/LCD