Raspberry Pi RGB LED Controller

Control RGB LED on your Raspberry Pi through a web browser. This is a companion to my project on Hackaday.io.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Raspberry Pi
• RGB LED Strip controller board
• Python pip
• pigpio library
• Flask
• flask-SocketIO

Instructions

1. Install Raspbian.
2. Install prerequisites.

sudo apt install python3-pip pigpio
sudo pip3 install flask flask-socketio eventlet pigpio

3. Install custom pigpiod service.

• Edit pigpiod service file:

nano /etc/systemd/system/pigpiod.service

• Paste the following in it:

[Unit]
Description=pigpio daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pigpiod -g

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Save and exit
• Enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl enable pigpiod.service
sudo systemctl start pigpiod.service

4. Download and unpack this repository.

wget https://github.com/dimitry-ishenko/rgb-led/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv rgb-led-master rgb-led

5. Launch the application:

cd rgb-led
python3 app.py

6. On your computer, open the web browser and navigate to the Pi IP address and port 5000 (eg: http://192.168.1.1:5000). You should see the following:
7. Control your RGB LED Strip from the browser. How cool.
8. Share and enjoy.

Authors

• Dimitry Ishenko - dimitry (dot) ishenko (at) (gee) mail (dot) com

License

This project is distributed under the GNU GPL license. See the LICENSE.md file for details.