Plugin for WIFI controlled LED light (IWY-Light)

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Hey folks,

a view months ago I brought some WIFI controllable lights for my home (see here http://www.amazon.de/Lampe-IWY-Master-Farbwechsel-dimmbar/dp/B00GZNBBEK/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top). I had the plan to control them by a Raspberry Pi and let them automatically switch of when nobody is at home, change the color depending by day time or temperature outside and so on. So I searched for a solution where I could apply rules to trigger light commands based on RF-signals, time, whether … and found Pimatic

Suddenly I found my self writing plugin to hook up those WIFI lights with Pimatic. I don`t know how widespread those light are, buy if anybody wants to use the IWY-Light with Pimatic check this out: https://github.com/philip1986/iwy-light-master

Its not perfect at least documentation and tests are missing, but I use it in ‘production’ at my place and it works fine

Looks very nice. Can’t wait to try the ui. If it’s ok I would like to transfer the ui into the framework / mobile-frontend to allow other plugins to use them as well in the future.

Just a notice: Its better to use the logger instead of console.log for error / debug logging.

If you release the package to npm I will add it to the plugin list at the homepage. Great work

Nice

I will change the logging and publish the plugin as an alpha version.

About the UI, its currently just optimized for chrome it did`t test it for other browsers, also for mobile devices the UI needs improvements.

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing this with us!

I wanted to start with similar work when I found the following offer, recently: http://www.amazon.de/Fernbedienung-Farbwechsel-Glühbirne-Controller-steuerbar/dp/B00LQRK3YO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1428911941&sr=8-8&keywords=Mi-Light

Apparently, IWI-Light and Milight are the same baseline product. See also: http://www.msxfaq.de/lync/impresence/iwylight.htm

Regarding Milight I found the following code snipptes https://gist.github.com/AppLamp-API

Edit: The MiLightBulb or MiLight is also sold under the brand of EasyBulb, iBulb, LinkUP and Kepsun.

I have looked at your code and it is nice. But when you change the setPower to the function of the normal switch device (turnOn, turnOff, toggle)then you can delete your action handler for this. Because it is handled by the normal action provider from pimatic framework.
https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/blob/master/lib/actions.coffee#L185

@mwittig there is an important differences between those light devices. Some of them need a gateway and others not like IWY-Master where every bulb has an own IP. The second link you shared has a small section about it (WiFi-Controller und Leuchte in einem Gehäuse), but it tells the communication is done via UDP. The ones I have (maybe a later version) are communicating via TCP. So there might be some varieties of the protocol over different brands or versions.
The good news are from a high level perspective they are all equal, we just have to provide adapted versions of the underlying driver with the same API. In case of IWY-Master I use this one: https://github.com/philip1986/iwy_master

@Icesory thx for the advice. I will change it.

@philip1986 said:

@mwittig there is an important differences between those light devices …

Thanks for pointing this out!

I think I’ll go for the Mi-Light solution and may be I can contribute to your project at some point about the specifics for Mi-Light then.

This would be nice.

After some changes due to your I published the plugin as a npm module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pimatic-iwy-light-master.

Regarding the UI at mobile phones, I am happy with the landscape view, but the ‘normal’ view look really shitty (see in the attached links). I tried to fix this, but I am really bad with CSS. Maybe one of you has a idea to make it look better.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxKcp4mFjnlWE1PRzZIVENnT0k/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxKcp4mFjnlRUU3ZzNxTHlXWXM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxKcp4mFjnlYXA5X29UTXdsbXc/view?usp=sharing

This can sweetpi fix.
But i dont like the style of the color picker. It is good for an graphic program but to change fast a color for a lamp i think it isnt nice.
I like something like this
http://support.nextlimit.com/download/attachments/1475629/studio_color_picker.jpg?version=2&modificationDate=1315930581000&api=v2

Something like this would be nice?

@philip1986
something like this?

Yes, I agree it should be a color picker where the use is able to select any color with one click/tap. The one @sweebee suggests looks good to me. I will continue to improve it soon as possible.

the one from sweebee looks fine.
keep in mind that the gui needs to be operated on mobiles too, therefore a simlpe design would be best imho.

I agree that the one from @swebee has the best look and ‘feel’.
What is missing, is an option to show ordinairy ‘white’ light.

The withe problem could be solved by an extra button.
But but sure about the implementation of the slider, it looks like a HTML5 range slider with customized background color. Do somebody know a library for this?

You need two sliders. One for the color and one for the brightness.
But I like a popup for the color picker to keep the front end clear.

How about this?

Super cool. How do you create this? Is it really css, html or photoshoped?

Its made in sketch, so no html and css