meowmeowahr / autolight

VL53L0X controlled automatic lighting system

Auto-Light

Raspberry Pi controlled VL53L0X activated lights via PCA9685

Hardware Requirements

• A Raspberry Pi (Original Pi Zero and Original Pi A/B are not supported)
• PCA9685
• Up to 16 VL53L0X sensors
• As many leds as there are sensors

Installation

Software requirements

Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (Older OSes may work with pyenv and building lgpio from source)

System Dependencies

Install these before Python dependencies

sudo apt install python3-dev

Python Dependencies

• Change directory into AutoLight

  cd AutoLight

• Setting virtual environment

  python3 -m venv .venv

• Source environment

  source .venv/bin/activate

• Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

🚀 AutoLight is now installed

Configuration

All configuration is done through a config.yaml file. An example to get started is included and used by default in the source. Either directly edit the file, or use the --config or -c command line argument to define a custom location.