Can Moteinos be used without the gateway web interface?

[vdesouza]

Hello,

I am fairly new to the Raspberry Pi and to home automation projects. I have a simple project that I am trying to accomplish and I'm certain that moteinos will be a good solution.

I have a Hue Light in a closet that I would like to turn on when a motion detector detects motion. Can I set a Moteino PIR sensor to send the motion signal to a Raspberry Pi and have a simple program on the Pi use that signal to trigger the Hue API to control the light?

At this moment I am not looking for the full web interface controls like the gateway examples. How would I set the Pi to receive the signal from the motion sensor? I assume I need the sensor and another Moteino on the Pi itself but I don't know how to set up the Moteino on the Pi to read in the sensor messages without having to set up the entire gateway web interface stuff.

Thanks!

[Felix]

You can write a program that reads the serial messages from the Moteino, and parses them into meaningful tokens that you can then use to make decisions.
The gateway stack is basically just that + a web interface.
You can do that in whatever language you want.

[syrinxtech]

@vdesouza,

What kind of software/hardware interface does the Hue use?  It's trivial to have a Moteino sense motion with a PIR and output a signal.  You said you wanted the Pi to run a program.....what kind of program?  In what language?  What's the physical interface between the Hue and the Pi?

Sounds like a cool project.

[vdesouza]

@vdesouza,

What kind of software/hardware interface does the Hue use?  It's trivial to have a Moteino sense motion with a PIR and output a signal.  You said you wanted the Pi to run a program.....what kind of program?  In what language?  What's the physical interface between the Hue and the Pi?

Sounds like a cool project.

I just received the Moteinos for motion and gateway and in the process of getting started.

The Hue lights can be controlled through a simple python script on the Pi. I'm sure there are other ways to interact with the Hue lights and in other languages but I am familiar in using Python to trigger the lights to turn on or off and in different colors and brightness.

The idea is to have the Pi receive a motion detected message (from the MotionMote) and trigger the hue lights to turn on. I haven't had the chance to look into how to have the Python script receive the motion message from the gateway Moteino yet. Any suggestions/tips? If it helps, I am using a Moteino-USB for the gateway and that will be connected to the Pi.

Thanks!