steven-chien / polyhack-alarm

An alarm that does not stop if you don't get out of your room.

Smart Alarm

An alarm clock that uses PIR sensor to make sure that you have got out of your room before stopping. Intended to run on Raspberry Pi.

Getting Started

1. Install the dependencies

   # apt-get install vorbis-tools
   # pip install cherrypy
   # pip install python-deamon
   

   On Mac install vorbis-tools with

   brew install vorbis-tools
   

2. Configure crontab

   Add the following to the root crontab

   * * * * * /bin/sed -e :a -e '$q;N;301,$D;ba' -i /tmp/raw_state.dat
   

   Add the following to the user(pi) crontab

   * * * * * /usr/bin/python (abs path to your location)/wakeup.py (abs path to your location) >> /tmp/wakeup.log 2>&1 &
   

3. Run the sensor daemon

   sudo python sensor/movement_sensor.py
   

4. Run the server

   python server.py
   

5. Launch your browser, go to

   localhost:8080
   

Libraries

Smart alarm uses the following libraires and hardware:

• [Bootstrap] - CSS library
• [CherryPy] - A Minimalist Python Web Framework
• [python-daemon] - Library help daemonize script
• [Python GPIO] - The library used for reading GPIO pins on the Pi
• [ogg123] - A Linux Ogg Vorbis audio player
• [jQuery] - A cross-platform JavaScript library

Version

v0.1

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Anson Kwan, Carson Yan, Star Poon and Steven Chien

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/