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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