setmylights

User based color selector for my own xmas lights

• User can set color values and apply it to current state of the xmas lights
• A real time feed shows if the color changes
• User can add their names and be shown in the guest log

Tech Stack

LED Strips and Controller

• WS2812b 300led/5m strip
• NodeMCU running micropython
• Power supply 5V/10A rating

Video Stream

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• PiCam
• Motion OS

Webserver

• Hosted at AWS EC2 t2.micro (free lol)
• Nginx server
• Flask framework

Operation

• Webserver, Video stream, & Led control are running independently.
• Led control built script which request Webserver to get recent color state (values)
• Webserver sets the color state whenever a user clicks apply
• Video stream is running locally on my raspberry pi, so i needed to port forward from my router to be accessible to public network. Then a reverse proxy server is configured on Nginx to forward Video stream to the webserver.