Hardware hints + wiring plan

[j-mastr]

Hi Sebastian,

I‘ve found this project via your blog and am really interested in conducting a similar project myself.

Unfortunately, my background is quite similar to yours as well: I‘m more into software than into hardware, so my missing puzzle pieces are the different components and wiring.

Do you have any hints and tips, maybe with a list of the items used by you and a wiring plan, especially regarding power supply? This would be very helpful!

By the way, is your alarm still waking you up each morning? (I‘ve seen, you‘ve added a radio feature?)

I really appreciate your work, thank you for this project and inspirations!

Best,
Janik

[HenryLeC]

I know this is a little bit late, only 3 months. The original maintainer hasn't committed in over a year so I don't think he is going to respond or work on this anymore. But, I just built this project but I used a different led controller. I used a WS2812 controller while the project is built for a WS2801 controller. I can make a PR with my code changes and some better documentation with a wiring diagram if you would like.

[flriancu]

Hi @HenryLeC , I’m in a similar situation. I have no doubt I can do it myself, as it’s not particularly complicated, but if you have some time-saving advice and documentation it would be very nice! 🙂

[boyddensmore]

Absolutely @HenryLeC , if you could make a PR or make your repo public that would be amazing. No doubt I can figure it out for the WS2812 eventually but it sure would be nice not to have to duplicate effort.

[boyddensmore]

@HenryLeC @flriancu I managed to get this working with the ws2811b so I figured I'd share. Note, I only got it working, I haven't updated the setup to change the list of required libraries or anything, just updated it in place.

Note, I also had to update the service unit to remove the user and have it run the pi_dawn service as root. I'm looking into that to see if there's a more secure way to do it, I don't like the idea of running things as root.

Also note that in this commit I have the brightness set quite low at 30, you'll probably want to change that.

boyddensmore@6e5ec2d

[boyddensmore]

I had a typo, check the latest commit instead: boyddensmore@97aacdc

[L1nusG0]

Hey Guys,
I was also looking to make this program work but had a few issues getting it running. If one of you has a more detailed wiring plan I would be very grateful if you could share it with me. Many thanks in advance!

[polymerchm]

I'm building one as well, but using PCA9685's to control the LEDs via MOSFET drivers. Will blog and post when it closer to done (end of Sep.) Also an IR remote and touch controls to raise lower the intensity. I have several "rev 1" mother boards that need some workarounds. Stay tuned.

[polymerchm]

I also used REACT for the frontend.