StofAnanas
| Project StofAnanas | |
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| Showing particulate matter concentration as a coloured light | |
| Status | In progress |
| Contact | bertrik |
| Last Update | 2019-09-07 |
The idea
Shows current airborne particulate matter concentration from the nearest luftdaten citizen science measurement station using a LED light in a lamp, inspired by http://stoflamp.nl The data that the LED colour is based on is 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 PM10 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, there is a one-time setup to configure your WiFi network so the device can access the internet
- The lamp automatically determines the nearest luftdaten particulate measurement station, by doing WiFi based geolocation.
- The number/id of the luftdaten station can also be entered manually during the one-time setup.
- The hardware components consist of a Wemos D1 mini board (about E3,-), a Wemos D1 mini RGB LED shield (about E1,-) and a USB power supply + cable.
Ideas/nice to have:
- Built-in web server, with links to historic measurement data of the sensor it's monitoring, link to google maps, etc.
- complication: the nice graphs on madavi.de are based on the *hardware id* (not database id), we can't get that automatically
- just show a table with all properties in the left column (PM values, WGS84 location) and their values in the right column?
- 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?
- Remote control over IR?
Operation Manual
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
This assumes you have platformio installed, this is done on Debian Linux for example, as follows:
sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install platformio
Configuration
Automatic configuration:
- power up the lamp
- 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, leave the luftdaten id field empty, press SAVE
- the closest luftdaten particulate matter sensor will automatically be determined
Manual 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
Alternatively:
- make sure at least the WiFi credentials have been entered and saved
- open a console to the serial port of the wemos D1 mini (115200 bps) and enter the following command:
config auto
- within a few seconds, you should see it prints the current approximate geographic location and the id of the luftdaten station, the id should be non-zero. It is saved in internal memory.
Usage
- Power up the lamp while in range of the WiFi network you configured. The LED shows a colour animation when starting up.
- The LED turns off for a shor time, then changes to a colour representing a PM concentration
- A new PM measurement is retrieved automatically every 5 minutes.
Hardware
The lamp is controlled by an ESP8266, a Wemos D1 mini board. The LED is an RGB LED with built-in PL9823 controller. The PL9823 is compatible with the WS2812B RGB LED as far as I can tell (the WS2812B driver in the FastLED library works with the PL9823).
Connections (using dupont female-female):
- LED Din to Wemos D1 mini pin D2
- LED Gnd to Wemos D1 mini pin GND
- LED Vdd to Wemos D1 mini pin 5V
This is the same pinout as used by the Wemos WS2812B RGB shield
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)purplish