From a low cost fan to a connected Fan

Description

Resurrect your old fan! Add Wifi connectivity and control it from anyway!

Project has been done in Amiqual4Home Equipex Creativity Lab - https://amiqual4home.inria.fr/

Prerequisities

• Spark Core with latest firmware updates :

  sudo particle flash --usb cc3000
  sudo particle flash --usb deep_update_2014_06
  

• 3 Relay tinkerkit
• A fan

Setup

hardware

• For this model, there are four buttons for three speed and one stop. They are connected to the input pullup sparkcore in D0, D1 , D2 which are assosié three relays control the motor speed.

• The motor speed are control by three wire :
  • Blue = speed 1
  • White = speed 2
  • Red = speed 3

• connect each relay on a three wire and on live wire (brown 220v),The relay are connected to the output sparkcore in D3, D4 , D5 and Vin(5v), GND.

• for the sparkcore and the relay is supplied with 5V, install a portable charger transformer.

Commands

curl https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/'SPARK_CORE_ID'/fanAPI -d access_token='YOUR_TOKEN' -d "params=CMD_NAME"

• CMD_NAME =

  • POWEROFF
  • SPEED1
  • SPEED2
  • SPEED3

• For get the status :

  curl https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/'SPARK_CORE_ID'/state\?access_token\='YOUR_TOKEN'

  • state = 0 : OFF
  • state = 1 : SPEED1
  • state = 2 : SPEED2
  • state = 3 : SPEED3

• https://community.particle.io/t/getting-mac-address-of-unconnected-core/8473/5
• http://blog.particle.io/2014/08/06/control-the-connection/