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מציג פוסטים מתאריך מרץ, 2014

Automatic Lighting Adjustment with LIFX Bulbs

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Two weeks ago i got my new LIFX bulbs and they are really superb. They are so great because of 4 things: You can control the lights color. It got 3 RGB leds, so you can pretty much choose any color you wish Light Intensity can be controlled as well It's all done Remotely, where the bulbs are linked to your WiFi network You can automate them through programming. Obviously, the last one on the list is the most intriguing to me. What I am going to show is how to use the bulbs, together with my IP Camera (One Edimax IC3030 ), to implement a system that can automatically turn the lights on or off based on the lighting conditions. It will also automatically adjust the lights intensity so that you can get a fairly constant lighting level. Since the system is completely based on computer vision, and not time-based, it will work both when it's dark because of sundown, and when it is cloudy, and will turn off if another artificial light source is used in the scenery. In this ar...