PIR-Sensor - put your mirror to sleep if not used

[paviro]

Description:

MMM-PIR-Sensor will monitor a connected PIR-sensor and putt your mirror to sleep if no one uses it either by disabling HDMI output or by turning of a relay.

Download:

[card:paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor]

FAQ

“An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild. Unable to find electron-prebuilt’s version number, either install it or specify an explicit version”

Possible solution: Change your package.json file in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor like this.

Developer note

If you are a developer and want to pause your module while no one uses it (if it is processor intense), you can listen to the USER_PRESENCE broadcast. It will return true or false as its payload.

Changelog

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Initial release

[KirAsh4]

For troubleshooting or HOWTO questions, please post in the Troubleshooting thread:
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/208/pir-sensor-put-your-mirror-to-sleep-if-not-used/1

[sameershah23]

I was wondering if there is a way to toggle the power to the TV via HDMI CEC commands (sent by pi) and integrating a PIR sensor?

Example setup: The pi is always powered on. I walk into the room, the PIR senses me, and sends a power on signal to my TV via HDMI CEC command, and the mirror modules are displayed.

After a set duration, if no activity sensed by PIR sensor, a power off CEC command is sent to the TV by PI.

Has this been done before?

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

[KirAsh4]

Please do not cross-post the same question across multiple categories. Answers will get lost in the various posts.

[paviro]

@sameershah23 Should be possible. There already is a function that turns of the HDMI output of the Pi you would just need to replace that part (or add a new mode) that sends a command to the monitor. Feel free to send a pull request!

[sameershah23]

@paviro I am fairly new to the programming world, but i was wondering what I need to add to the “//Detected Movement” & “//No movement” parts so that it sends the appropriate power toggle CEC signal to my TV?

Do I need to install the CEC library? How do I initialize this CEC library in your node_helper.js file?

After some googling, i found this library for CEC.

https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec/issues/84

Will this library work for this application?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

[KirAsh4]

Assuming your monitor/TV supports proper HDMI CEC commands, you need to first install the necessary binaries on your rpi and test that yourself - that’s outside of MM².

Once you figured out that it works, then you need to write (or ask someone else to write) a module that interacts with the CEC binaries sending the proper commands. - that’s MM² related.

[tyho]

@sameershah23 maybe power off and on your hdmi signal and let your monitor/tv go to sleep mode when no signal.

The command will be:
OFF:
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice --off
ON:
/opt/vc/bin/tvservice --preferred && sudo chvt 6 && sudo chvt 7

You can easily execute commands in node.js

[IngmarSwart]

Using motion detection to switch your mirror on and off is very appealing. PIRs are a good option and Paviro’s module does a wonderful job. However, for an aesthetic point of view, I would like to mount the motion sensor behind the mirror, i.e. in such a way you can’t see the sensor. Since glass absorbs the light the PIR is sensitive to, PIRs (or at least the ones I tested, played with sensitivities as well) are not the best option. I played around a bit and found an alternative solution based on the Picamera, OpenCV and Paviro’s MMM-PIR module.

Downsides include having to run a python program next to the Magic Mirror. On a RPi3 it this is not a problem and is in my view therefore a rather minor drawback. If you run your MM on a RPi2, this may be an issue. Getting this to work also requires a non-trivial installation of OpenCV. However, thanks to the fantastic people over at PyImageSearch, detailed instructions are available. Upsides of this solution are: motion detection using a camera from behind the glass and the possibility to upload a photo taken by the camera each time it detects motion to your dropbox account.

Steps to follow:

• Disable the red LED on the Picamera by adding disable_camera_led = 1 to \boot\config.txt
  (you don’t want to see red LED of the camera when looking at your mirror)
• Install a full version of OpenCV on the RPi. Detailed instructions can be found here
• Follow the two part tutorial on writing a python based code for motion detection: Part I and Part II
• Modify the python program found on the second page to generate a 3.3 V signal on a specified pin when the camera detects motion. This pin (pin 4 below) is then connected by a wire to the pin you specified in the MMM-PIR section of the MM config.js file. My modifications to the python code are:

On line 14 of the python code, add:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
OPENCV_pin = 4 # specify whatever pin you want to generate the 3.3 V at when motion is detected.
GPIO.setup(OPENCV_pin, GPIO.OUT)

On line 26 add:

UnoccupiedCounter = 0
NumUnoccFramesSwitchOff = conf["fps"] * conf["time_to_switch_off"]

On line 108 insert:

UnoccupiedCounter = 0
if GPIO.input(OPENCV_pin) == 0 # check if openCV pin is high or low. If low, turn high
         GPIO.output(OPENCV_pin,1)
         print "Switched Mirror ON"

On line 137 insert:

UnoccupiedCounter =  UnoccupiedCounter + 1
if UnoccupiedCounter = numUnoccFramesSwitchOff and GPIO.input(OPENCV_pin)==1:
         GPIO.output(OPENCV_pin, 0)
         print "Switched Mirror OFF"

• Add "time_to_switch_off": 30 to the conf.json file. Don’t forget to add the comma behind the previous entry.
• Optional but recommended to get a clean exit:
  Insert the whole for loop in a try statement.
  Between line 53 and 54, add

try: 

Don’t forget to indent all the code that comes next. Add the very bottom, add:

except KeyboardInterrupt:
      print "Stopped camera surveillance" # exit the program when you press CNRL +C

except: 
      print "Other error or exception occurred!" # catch all other errors

finally:
     GPIO.cleanup() # this ensures a clean exit.

I hope the above is of use to some of you.

[DirkS]

HI @IngmarSwart,

great hack!! Did you use the original Camera behind the glass? Noir or without the IR Filter?

I’m using a PI2, can you specify why this should be an issue?

Best regards
Dirk