After a long time, another post! We have been to 4 states on the west coast of America for almost 4 weeks, after that a pneumonia kept me from doing stuff.
Slowly, I started finishing my Workshop/Lab for my new business. So I didn’t have many things to post about. So now I’ll post something about this Home Assistant solution, because there was not a decent post to be found about this solution.
Some history: A long time ago I made a 4 button 4 led controller with my friend Duncan. At that time we were using Domoticz, and used a NodeMcu with ESP Easy to read the button states and made the leds act as status lights.
This is made using a NodeMCU (8266) but ESP32, Wemos, whatever will work also. We wanted to repurpose the old NodeMCU, instead of building a new one.
So Migrating to Home Assistant: How to install ESPHome is easy to find on the internet.
Below is an example for 4 push buttons which TOGGLE a Home Assistant entity. And the LEDs will give a feedback of the state of an entity.
Note: There is 1 out of 4 configured like that. The other ones are generic. One button toggles my shelly lab ledlight, and lights up a led when toggled!
My C64 had a problem with previous attached speaker. It drew too much current to drive. And random characters where printed. Choosing another speaker and a minimal amplifier solved the issue. (Thanks to Bigred finding the problem at Bornhack 2024)
Today I made a Linux version of Tyrone’s QuickPath tool.
My friend Tyrone came up with a great idea.
A directory switching tool, to move around in often used directories. You can use a keyword to move around. These keywords are configured in a config file. Even starting Total Commander with preset directories. Work/Private/Programming environments. His version uses PowerShell, but he wanted a multiplatform version, so we have chosen to use Python on both environments.
My version uses Python and Bash. (Bash is used for a change directory workaround on Linux and bash completion.)
Source will be in Tyrone’s git when finished.
Options:
qp – lists config items with number and short key
qp 1 or qp c64demo – changes directory to below example
qp add c64demo /data/store/git/projects/c64code2024 – add a entry
qp del 1 – removes entry
qp mc tmp c64demo – starts midnight commander with left and right directories
Tomorrow some laser cutting, so let’s design some things to cut.
Jigsaw test – using engraving and cutting
Make a front for my bus manipulator
Make some cases for the game controllers (These are beta, and will be 3D printed at a later stage. My old 3D printer is slow)
Saw a cool game a while ago, and found some old code. There was no schematic, so I had to reverse engineer it using the Arduino code. This one uses a Micro Pro.
Build a working version, now I can use this as base to create other games. But first i’m going to rebuild it so it can use Wifi and uses a Lipo Battery. Making it usable without wires.
Rotary – set angle/speed (Press resets)
Blue – toggle angle or speed ( was rotary press )
Green – select digit to change
Red – Fire
Led – not completely working yet, shows color of player Wil be changed to addressable leds with more functions (Player color, energy warning and more)
Last week I bought an old Bornhack Badge. I thought it needed a display.
Using a SSD1306 display, and Circuitpython I made this.
( Wooded thingy contains an RFID chip ( Part of my player ))
Library and files needed:
font5x8.bin in root of filesystem ( just google for this file )
copy of adafruit_framebuf.mpy in /lib
copy of adafruit_ssd1306.mpy in /lib
Code: (midway some pixel examples, just uncomment)
import board
from time import sleep
import busio
from PN7150 import PN7150
import adafruit_ssd1306
import math
import adafruit_framebuf
if True:
# Fast 400KHz I2C
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA, frequency = 400000)
else:
# Regular 100kHz I2C
i2c = board.I2C()
WIDTH = 32
HEIGHT = 8
buffer = bytearray(round(WIDTH * math.ceil(HEIGHT / 8)))
fb = adafruit_framebuf.FrameBuffer(
buffer, WIDTH, HEIGHT, buf_format=adafruit_framebuf.MVLSB
)
nfc = PN7150(i2c, board.IRQ, board.VEN)
display = adafruit_ssd1306.SSD1306_I2C(128, 32, i2c,addr=0x3c)
assert nfc.connect()
print("Connected.")
assert nfc.modeRW()
print("Switched to read/write mode.")
display.fill(0)
display.show()
#display.fill(0)
#display.text('Hello', 0, 0, 1 )
#display.text('World', 0, 10, 1)
#display.show()
# Set a pixel in the origin 0,0 position.
#display.pixel(0, 0, 1)
# Set a pixel in the middle 64, 16 position.
#display.pixel(64, 16, 1)
# Set a pixel in the opposite 127, 31 position.
#display.pixel(127, 31, 1)
#display.show()
while True:
display.fill(0)
display.text('Waiting for card', 0, 0, 1 )
display.show()
assert nfc.startDiscoveryRW()
print("Waiting for card..")
card = nfc.waitForCard()
assert nfc.stopDiscovery()
print("ID: {}".format(card.nfcid1()))
id = card.nfcid1()
display.text(id, 0, 10, 1 )
display.show()
sleep(0.5)
Not sure about display i2c address? Use below code
import time
import board
import busio
# List of potential I2C busses
ALL_I2C = ("board.I2C()",)
# Determine which busses are valid
found_i2c = []
for name in ALL_I2C:
try:
print("Checking {}...".format(name), end="")
bus = eval(name)
bus.unlock()
found_i2c.append((name, bus))
print("ADDED.")
except Exception as e:
print("SKIPPED:", e)
# Scan valid busses
if len(found_i2c):
print("-" * 40)
print("I2C SCAN")
print("-" * 40)
while True:
for bus_info in found_i2c:
name = bus_info[0]
bus = bus_info[1]
while not bus.try_lock():
pass
print(
name,
"addresses found:",
[hex(device_address) for device_address in bus.scan()],
)
bus.unlock()
time.sleep(2)
else:
print("No valid I2C bus found.")
Recordplayer model by kriswillcode, but heavily remixed
Record player is going to be re-printed at a higher quality.
Put a printed image on the player, and it plays the album
Move the arm, and the next track will be played
Press upper white button, and the music will pause/resume
Press lower button … ??? Don’t know yet
Updated python client (see previous posts)
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import urllib.request
from time import sleep
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc): # The callback for when the client connects to the broker
print("Connected with result code {0}".format(str(rc)))
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/idlms")
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/but1")
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/but2")
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/arm")
def on_message(client, userdata, msg): # The callback for when a PUBLISH message is received from the server.
print("Message received-> " + msg.topic + " " + str(msg.payload)) # Print a received msg
if msg.topic == "spotify/rfid/idlms":
urllib.request.urlopen("http://LMS-SERVER-IP:9000/anyurl?p0=playlistcontrol&p1=album_id:" + msg.payload.decode() + "&p2=cmd:load&player=00:04:20:16:d9:04")
if msg.topic == "spotify/rfid/but1":
urllib.request.urlopen("http://LMS-SERVER-IP:9000/anyurl?p0=pause&player=00:04:20:16:d9:04")
sleep(1)
if msg.topic == "spotify/rfid/but2":
urllib.request.urlopen("http://LMS-SERVER-IP:9000/anyurl?p0=pause&pt=1&player=00:04:20:16:d9:04")
sleep(1)
if msg.topic == "spotify/rfid/arm":
urllib.request.urlopen("http://LMS-SERVER-IP:9000/status.html?p0=button&p1=jump_fwd&player=00:04:20:16:d9:04")
sleep(1)
client = mqtt.Client("lmsclient") # Create instance of client with client ID “digi_mqtt_test”
client.on_connect = on_connect # Define callback function for successful connection
client.on_message = on_message # Define callback function for receipt of a message
client.connect('MQTTSERVER', 1883)
client.loop_forever() # Start daemon
Wemos INO file
#include <Arduino.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <MFRC522.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <PubSubClient.h>
#define SS_PIN 15
#define RST_PIN 0
const int buttonPin1 = D1;
const int buttonPin2 = D2;
int buttonState1 = 0;
int buttonState2 = 0;
MFRC522 mfrc522(SS_PIN, RST_PIN);
MFRC522::StatusCode status; //variable to get card status
byte buffer[18]; //data transfer buffer (16+2 bytes data+CRC)
byte size = sizeof(buffer);
uint8_t pageAddr = 0x06; //In this example we will write/read 16 bytes (page 6,7,8 and 9).
//Ultraligth mem = 16 pages. 4 bytes per page.
//Pages 0 to 4 are for special functions.
unsigned long cardId = 0;
WiFiClient net;
PubSubClient client(net);
const char* mqtt_server = "MQTTBROKER";
const char* ssid = "MYSSID";
const char* password = "MYWIFIPASWORD";
String topicStr = "";
byte buffer2[8];
boolean Rflag=false;
int r_len;
char payload[5];
byte value[5];
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(buttonPin1, INPUT_PULLUP);
pinMode(buttonPin2, INPUT_PULLUP );
SPI.begin();
mfrc522.PCD_Init();
WiFi.mode(WIFI_AP_STA);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
client.setServer(mqtt_server, 1883);
delay(100);
client.setCallback(callback);
delay(100);
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/in/#");
}
void reconnect() {
while (WiFi.waitForConnectResult() != WL_CONNECTED) {
}
while (!client.connected()) {
String clientId = "rfid-";
clientId += String(random(0xffff), HEX);
if (!client.connect(clientId.c_str(), "rfidclient", "...")) {
delay(5000);
}
}
client.subscribe("spotify/rfid/in/#");
}
void callback(char* topic, byte* payload, unsigned int length) {
Serial.print(F("Called"));
Rflag=true; //will use in main loop
r_len=length; //will use in main loop
int j=0;
for (j;j<length;j++) {
buffer2[j]=payload[j];
//Serial.print((char)payload[j]);
}
if (r_len < 3) {
Rflag=false;
Serial.print(F("Set false"));
}
buffer2[j]='\0'; //terminate string
}
void loop() {
if (!client.connected()) {
reconnect();
}
buttonState1 = digitalRead(buttonPin1);
//Serial.print(buttonState1);
if (buttonState1 == 0 ) {
client.publish("spotify/rfid/but1", "0");
}
buttonState2 = digitalRead(buttonPin2);
//Serial.println(buttonState2);
if (buttonState2 == 0 ) {
client.publish("spotify/rfid/but2", "0");
}
int reading = analogRead(0);
//Serial.println(reading);
if (reading > 500 ) {
client.publish("spotify/rfid/arm", "0");
}
client.loop();
if (!mfrc522.PICC_IsNewCardPresent()) {
return;
}
if (!mfrc522.PICC_ReadCardSerial()) {
return;
}
if (Rflag) {
for (int i=0; i < 4; i++) {
//data is writen in blocks of 4 bytes (4 bytes per page)
status = (MFRC522::StatusCode) mfrc522.MIFARE_Ultralight_Write(pageAddr+i, &buffer2[i*4], 4);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
return;
}
}
Rflag=false;
}
cardId = getCardId();
char buffer3[10];
sprintf(buffer3, "%lu", cardId);
client.publish("spotify/rfid/id", buffer3);
status = (MFRC522::StatusCode) mfrc522.MIFARE_Read(pageAddr, buffer, &size);
if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) {
Serial.println(F("MIFARE_Read() failed: (R)"));
Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status));
return;
}
Serial.println(F("Read data: "));
for (byte i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
Serial.write(buffer[i]);
buffer2[i]=buffer[i];
}
client.publish("spotify/rfid/idlms", buffer,5);
delay(1000);
mfrc522.PICC_HaltA();
}
unsigned long getCardId() {
byte readCard[4];
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
readCard[i] = mfrc522.uid.uidByte[i];
}
return (unsigned long)readCard[0] << 24
| (unsigned long)readCard[1] << 16
| (unsigned long)readCard[2] << 8
| (unsigned long)readCard[3];
}