Yes, battery powered and talks to indigo.
It is a project I though of after the Bookshelf lighting which I think was the genesis...I figure I have most the parts so what do I do next with them:)
I have standard led(s) lying around and had been using various resistance to get them to the right brightness. Was planning on just using one yellow LED to make the candle effect. I've played with 1 red and 2 yellows and that looks better but as you mentioned I need to keep the power consumption down. Not opposed to buying an LED strip that had the same power consumption but I could not find anything short enough (some LED "sticks" but even those seemed a bit overkill).
@mundmc said:
As far as RTC, i am not as familiar. I know esp32 has a wake from sleep function, not sure about 8266. Good advice. I need to look into the esp32. If it uses less power than the ESP8266 combined with the RTC then its a better choice.
Would indigo be able to wake up the ESP32 (like wake on LAN)?
Power conditioner? You can usually get away with running 5V into the Vin pin or micro hdmi. I do this straight from a 5V 6A - 30A power supply. I know you can power it off 3v3, just not sure which pin. I usually put a capacitor between + and - , i think 10uF but not certain.
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I have some 10uF's laying around. ...good idea. For my boards the 3.3v is on the opposite side from the 5v (vbus) pin. I had read that one of them goes right to the chip and you run a greater risk of frying the chip but I honestly forgot which one.
This part is off topic but while Im thinking of it....I also wanted to use the ESP8266's for building landscape speakers powered by my (12vAC) lighting; Punch list looks something like this:
- Convert 12vAC to DC (I've got 5 on their way)
- Step down to 5 or 3v,, I might build these myself as I think noise is going to be an issue and might need to play around a little
- 12v DC audio amp, speaker
- ESP8266 with the airplay layer.
Do you think that is doable? (or within reason)