StofAnanas

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Project StofAnanas
StofAnanas.jpg
Showing particulate matter concentration as a coloured light
Status In progress
Contact bertrik
Last Update 2019-06-20

The idea

Show current airborne particulate matter concentration using a LED light in a lamp, inspired by http://stoflamp.nl The data that the LED colour is based on is simply retrieved over WiFi from the luftdaten website.

This lamp is a soft plastic translucent pine apple ("ananas"), bought at the "Action" store.

Features:

  • The lamp shows particulate matter concentration as a colour, from dark blue for low concentration to bright pink for high concentration
  • The lamp retrieves the PM value over wifi from the the luftdaten website
  • The luftdaten measurement station can be entered at the same time as when wifi credentials are entered.
  • should be compatible with Wemos D1 RGB LED shields. My PL9823 LED appears to be compatible with WS2812B LEDs.

Ideas/nice to have:

  • The lamp "breathes" by varying the intensity over time, e.g. a cycle of 10 seconds where the light dims a bit and brightens a bit
    • perhaps increase the breathing rate for higher PM
    • perhaps modulate the colour saturation instead of intensity
  • Automatic determination of location by means of wifi location, so you don't even need to input a luftdaten monitoring station id (do this on every startup for example)
    • example query to get (very coarse) position data from Mozilla:
 https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=test
    • example query to list of sensors centered around a location from Luftdaten:
 http://api.luftdaten.info/v1/filter/area=52.022,4.692,1.0
  • Remote control over IR

Operation Manual

configuration

Programming

  • connect everything up as indicated under 'hardware' and connect the Wemos D1 board to the USB port of your development PC / laptop
  • flash the software into the Wemos D1 mini, typically from the command line using platformio:
 pio run -t upload

Configuration

  • on https://netherlands.maps.luftdaten.info find the particulate matter station you want to follow and note the number of the station, for example "12246"
  • on a mobile phone, connect to the "ESP-STOFANANAS" network, and select login
  • when presented with the captive portal, select a WiFi network, fill in the WiFi password, AND ALSO fill in the number you looked up earlier, press SAVE
  • NOTE: when the configuration is ongoing, the LED will be YELLOW, it turns OFF when configuration is done.

Usage

  • Power up the lamp while in range of the WiFi network you configured
  • The LED should start yellow (connecting to the WiFi), then briefly change to OFF (retrieving PM value from Luftdaten), then change to a colour representing a PM concentration
  • A new PM measurement is retrieved every 5 minutes.

Hardware

pinout

The lamp is controlled by an ESP8266, a Wemos D1 mini board. The LEDs is an RGB LED with built-in PL9823 controller.

Connections (using dupont female-female):

  • LED Din to Wemos D1 mini pin D3
  • LED Gnd to Wemos D1 mini pin GND
  • LED Vdd to Wemos D1 mini pin 5V

Software

Getting and building the source code

Source code is available on github.

To compile and upload it, I use platform io:

 pio run -t upload

You can also compile it with the Arduino IDE, libraries used:

  • WiFiManager (v 0.14) is used to manage WiFi connection to the local AP
  • ArduinoJSON (v 6.11) for the parsing the luftdaten response
  • FastLED (v 3.2.9) is used to control the RGB LED

Luftdaten interface

The current measurement value of a particular sensor can be determined by parsing the JSON messages retrieved over a REST interface, by performing an HTTP GET on URL

 http://api.luftdaten.info/v1/sensor/<sensor-id>/

where <sensor-id> is the database id used by luftdaten (and visible on their map). The trailing slash in the URL is significant.

For example:

 http://api.luftdaten.info/v1/sensor/12246/

The software looks for the "P1" (PM10) sensor value in the JSON message and averages all measurements it finds (usually the current one and a previous one).

Colour mapping

Mapping is as follows, with piecewise linear interpolation:

  • 0 ug/m3: deep blue
  • 25 ug/m3: green
  • 50 ug/m3: yellow
  • 100 ug/m3: red
  • 200 ug/m3 (and higher): pink