VIVARIUM - RASPBERRY PI HOME

LIGHTS

What You'll Need




Raspberry Pi

Fully loaded with RasPiViv installed


Relay Power Box

Assembled in previous section


Jumper Wires

Used to connect the sensors to the GPIO


Computer

For SSH access to your Raspberry Pi


LEDs

Used to create Moonlight effect


Resistors

10 Ohm 1/2 watt

Installing Schedules and LED moonlights

Now that we have our relay driven power outlets we can schedule them to turn on and off using a cron job
In this build we have two light hoods with LED Moonlights that power on & off automatically during moonlight mode




Day Mode

Normal Vivarium lighting mode


Night Mode

LED moonlighting mode

STEP 1

Create a cron job to schedule your lighting. In my build the lights pwer on at 8am and off at 8pm
* 8 * * * wget -q http://localhost/html/on.php
* 20 * * * wget -q http://localhost/html/off.php



STEP 2

Connect the LEDs to a ground pin and positive to GPIO 4 (physical pin 16)
All LEDs are wired in parallel with a single resisitor and powered by the GPIO pin




STEP 3

Open a browser and visit your Raspberry Pi Vivarium Controller "Manual Controls" page and test your LEDs
NOTE: Buttons will show what will happen when clicked, not the current state of the device.




STEP 4

Wire and mount your LED moonlights



FINISHED

Next up, we will install fans and learn how to set humidity