MorningLight

Alarm clock "Morning light"

[!NOTE] Цей документ має переклад українською.

This project should make morning wake-ups more comfortable.

As the name applies, it shines a light, before the main alarm starts (by default before 30 minutes), and turns it off when the stop button is pressed or time elapsed (by default 30 minutes).

[!IMPORTANT] Currently project is in the prototype stage.

[!IMPORTANT] This project is not meant to substitute an alarm clock.

Setup

When first powered up, the Wi-Fi access point (default SSID "ConfigMe" and password "MegaSecurePassword123") will appear after connecting to this Wi-Fi configuration portal (default IP: 192.168.4.1).

The configuration portal allows entering the SSID and password of your Wi-Fi (which has Internet connection) and the main alarm clock start time.

[!IMPORTANT] Some settings are not available from the configuration portal because they are hard-coded. Checkwifi_utils.h

[!NOTE] An access point with a configuration portal can be started by pressing the start portal button.

Hardware

This project is built using WeMos D1 Mini Lite (ESP8266), 2 buttons, a 5V LED strip and a custom-made single layer PCB. To power this up, a 5V phone charger was used. Schematic and PCB are under pcb folder.

[!NOTE] PCB and schematic were created using KiCad 8.

[!NOTE] The stop button is connected to the PCB using a connector.

Software

This project was developed using the PlatformIO environment (VS Code extension).

For managing Wi-Fi connection, the WiFiManager lib was used.

For storing user preferences, the Preferences lib was used.

Code for NTP time server synchronisation was copied from here: https://werner.rothschopf.net/202011_arduino_esp8266_ntp_en.htm