Great stuff. People shouldn’t discount a faulty PIR either. The one I had on the shelf for ages wasn’t detecting quite right so I ordered another one and the difference in detection is huge. I’m not sure if these have a shelf life or what but yeah, that was my recent experience.

Description

This is my first module so don’t expect too much :p

This enables realtime notifications from IFTTT to your MagicMirror install, via a JSON POST endpoint of the mirror. Full instructions in the project:

Technically, this module could be used for any webhook service such as Zapier too.

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Wow that is not obvious or documented.

However, that worked Thanks heaps!

Try:

sudo npm install -g electron

If you get any errors with that command then something needs fixing outside of the MagicMirror package and installation.

This guide should cover it. Although that is for older raspberry pi models but still worth a read.

For raspberry pi 3 I’ve connected the pins [DI to 20] and [CI to 24] as labelled in this image.

Update: Added support for my new MMM-Sounds module. Notification integration instructions are in the updated MMM-IFTTT readme.

@shgmongohh I have forked the original MMM-Pir-Sensor repo and made some mods to debug my own sensor last week.

https://github.com/jc21/MMM-PIR-Sensor

If you add debug: true to the config of my forked code, you’ll get console info about when the sensor detects motion and when it doesn’t. Also note, I’ve renamed the sensorPIN config item to sensorGpio to more accurately indicate the numeric determination.

[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:31:07] Watching on GPIO #25 ...
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:15] Motion no longer detected
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:15] Turning Screen OFF in 30 seconds
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:18] Motion detected
[MMM-PIR] [2016-10-04 09:34:18] Not turning monitor ON, its already ON

@paulocarrasco Pull again now.

Made the noob mistake of not testing, I wasn’t near my mirror at the time. All good now.

@schmo90 It should work fine, there is no logic prior to that switch that filters possible values.

What does the server console log report after the text [PiLights] Incoming: ?

req.query.sequence should contain the string name of the sequence you’re requesting.

Hi schmo90, good to see you’re contributing

Assuming your tests with curl -X GET "http://yourmagicmirror/PiLights?sequence=blue_pulse" still don’t work, I think I’d need to see all of your changes. If you’ve forked my repo on github can you please link it?

Great stuff. People shouldn’t discount a faulty PIR either. The one I had on the shelf for ages wasn’t detecting quite right so I ordered another one and the difference in detection is huge. I’m not sure if these have a shelf life or what but yeah, that was my recent experience.

Sounds like you’re on top of that then.

Just fyi, the latest code for the original pir sensor module will rebuild the compiled dependencies for you as part of the npm install command in the module. There should be no reason to run npm rebuild manually unless you get those pesky “expected version xx but got xx” errors.

@open_book Very strange, it seems the module is trying to activate/deactive the monitor using the Relay, but you haven’t specified a relay to use.

I have noticed however, that sensorPIN of 3 shouldn’t work. This variable is incorrectly named, it is not actually the pin number of the header, but the GPIO number instead. Refer to this Pi 3 image showing which “pins” correspond to “gpio” numbers. You should be using one of 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 or 27.

For example, a sensorPIN of 4 would require the PIR io cable plugged in to pin header 7.

@open_book Few things,

1. What version of Raspbian are you using? The onoffnpm module has issues with some releases.
   Hint: cat /etc/os-release
2. What does your config look like for the pir module, exactly?

A quick look on that website and I found an API they provide. When you get more advanced you can hook into that.

From the quick googling I’ve done, it may be possible to disable/enable raspberry pi usb power with commands:

Disable

echo 0x0 > /sys/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/buspower

Enable

echo 0x1 > /sys/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/buspower

However I haven’t tested. I’d recommend writing a new module that handles this and listens for the USER_PRESENCE event notification that the Pir module triggers.

Depends on your module I guess. If the part you want to debug is in the interface, turning dev console on is the way:

electron js/electron.js dev

But if you want to debug node_helper side, console.log everything.

@paulocarrasco Pull again now.

Made the noob mistake of not testing, I wasn’t near my mirror at the time. All good now.