I'm a hardcore developer. My laptop remain ON for ever. Its really difficult job to turn OFF & ON laptop everytime I want to use it. "Wake up lappy" is project which makes my life easy by turning ON or waking up laptop as soons as I sit on my chair. This eventually saves electricity, improves battery life and keeps my laptop in good shape.
Ive attached a accelerometer to chair. As soon as chair moves or any movement is detected in chair, its sent through MQTT to desktop app which senses movement and wakes up my laptop. If No movement is detected on chair for more than 5 minutes, It sends command app to switch off or sleep depending upon idle time. To turn ON it makes use of another ESP8266 enables device which is having Triac switch to turn ON/OFF laptop power supply.
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