Office temperature monitoring

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-04 by koresar

I bought Puck.js basically to make sure none in our office changes the aircon settings.

The below app

• Blinks the Red LED when the temperature gets 25º. Blinks Blue LED when it's 22º or lower.
• If you click the Puck the temperature monitoring will switch Off/On. If it blinks green on clicking - you turned the monitoring On.
• To save some battery the temperature monitoring will turn Off automatically according to the schedule (time of the day and day of the week).

The app memory and CPU usage are optimized up to my knowledge of JS engines.

Below is the source code of the v1. The latest source code is hosted here.

Suggestions are very welcome.

// Change these as needed
var VAR = {
  temperatureCheckInterval: 10000,
  thermometerOffset: 2, // accuracy offset
  temperatureRange: {
    low: 22,
    high: 25
  },
  schedule: {
    timeOfTheDay: { start: 6 *60*60*1000, end: 21 *60*60*1000 },
    dayOfWeek: { start: 1, end: 5 } // inclusive
  },
  blinkingInterval: 1000
};

// Colour utilities
var colors = { RED: LED1, GREEN: LED2, BLUE: LED3 };
function turnLedsOff() {
  colors.RED.reset();
  colors.GREEN.reset();
  colors.BLUE.reset();
}

// Will blink once immediatelly
function blink(delay, LED) {
  LED = LED || colors.GREEN;
  LED.set();
  setTimeout(turnLedsOff, delay);
}

// Blinking logic: startBlinking, stopBlinking
var intervalId, isBlinking = false;
function stopBlinking(LED) {
  if (!isBlinking) return;

  isBlinking = false;
  clearInterval(intervalId);
  turnLedsOff();
}
function startBlinking(LED, interval) {
  LED = LED || colors.RED;
  if (isBlinking === LED) return;

  stopBlinking();

  isBlinking = LED;
  interval = interval || VAR.blinkingInterval;
  intervalId = setInterval(intervalCallback, interval);
}
function intervalCallback() {
  blink(100, isBlinking);
}

// Temperture checking logic: startMonitoring, stopMonitoring
function checkTemperature() {
  var temperature = E.getTemperature() + VAR.thermometerOffset;

  if (temperature <= VAR.temperatureRange.low) startBlinking(colors.BLUE);
  else if (temperature >= VAR.temperatureRange.high) startBlinking(colors.RED);
  else stopBlinking();
}
var monitoringId, isMonitoring;
function startMonitoring() {
  blink(100);
  if (isMonitoring) return;
  isMonitoring = true;
  monitoringId = setInterval(checkTemperature, VAR.temperatureCheckInterval);
  checkTemperature();
}
function stopMonitoring() {
  if (!isMonitoring) return;
  clearInterval(monitoringId);
  stopBlinking();
  isMonitoring = false;
  setDeepSleep(true);
}

// schedule logic: resetScheduler
function getTimeOfTheDay() {
  var now = new Date();
  return (
    (
      (
        now.getHours()
      )*60 + now.getMinutes()
    )*60 + now.getSeconds()
  )*1000 + now.getMilliseconds();
}
var totalMsecInADay = 24*60*60*1000;
var schedule = VAR.schedule;
function resetScheduler() {
  var msecOfTheDay = getTimeOfTheDay();
  if (msecOfTheDay >= schedule.timeOfTheDay.start && msecOfTheDay < schedule.timeOfTheDay.end) {
    setTimeout(
      resetScheduler,
      schedule.timeOfTheDay.end - msecOfTheDay
    );
    var dayOfWeek = new Date().getDay(); // respect week day schedule
    if (dayOfWeek >= schedule.dayOfWeek.start && dayOfWeek <= schedule.dayOfWeek.end) {
      startMonitoring();
    }
  } else {
    setTimeout(
      resetScheduler,
      (schedule.timeOfTheDay.start - msecOfTheDay + totalMsecInADay) % totalMsecInADay
    );
    stopMonitoring();
  }
}

turnLedsOff(); // can be On from other applications/commands
resetScheduler(); // start the monitoring and schedule a next event

setWatch(function() { // setup button clicking
  if (isMonitoring) stopMonitoring();
  else startMonitoring();
}, BTN, {edge:"rising", debounce:50, repeat:true});

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-01-04 by @gfwilliams

That looks great - thanks for posting it up!

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-05 by AntiCat

Great! Thank your for sharing.

Have you considered using digitalPulse? digitalPulse(LED2, 1, 100); Flashes the LED once, for 100 ms.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-05 by koresar

Wow. Haven't found it. Thanks. Will try it.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-06 by ThomasVikström

Very interesting, this was the first example I tried with to get started after the 'Hello world..'. Does the Puck know the date and time, or do you need to set it somehow?

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-06 by Fabio978

The Puck has its own RTC, and it's "synced" everytime you upload something from your pc.
You can use if for example as an alarm clock (do something at given date/time), that's great!

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-07 by koresar

The Puck has its own RTC, and it's "synced" everytime you upload something from your pc.

Yes it does, but not by default. One would need to turn the option On in the web IDE settings.

For some reason it set Puck time to 0:22 am, whereas it's 11:22 am in my time zone currently.
Thus, I would not recommend to sync puck time with your browser time because Espruino has no knowledge about time zones. The missing time zone complicates development.

My puck came to me with the time set close to Unix epoch ~ Jan 1970.

For simplicity the code above assumes the Puck time zone is set to the local time (i.e. the local timezone is +00 hours). I did it with the setTime function. Here is how to get a value for the setTime using node.js or a browser REPL: (Date.now() / 1000) + tzHours*60*60.

However, if you don't need the schedule feature, which relies on time, just remove lines 78-112.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-01-07 by Fabio978

Yes, my "dirty workaround" was to add +1 hour in the code, more or less like you suggest, while creating the Date object.
Didn't think about using setTime to make it "permanent".