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  1. Someone pressed the tonight :)

  2. Just seen a little child pressing the 🙂

  3. Got 3 days use out of my 22500mAh battery for 🙂

    Ordered another one (as only £10) so I can have a hot spare to try and achive better SAL compliance 🙂

  4. Getting a few button presses per day now and I've made the lights dim up and down thanks to help from the forum :)

  5. Updated my code to flash the LED every 10 seconds and added in an LWT so I know when the battery dies

  6. Updated my #MIcroBlocks code to flash the LED every 10 seconds and added in an #MQTT LWT so I know when the battery dies
    #GardenLights #Cheerlights

  7. Someone must have pressed the green button as I was out at 11:30 🙂

  8. Tested out with daughters car parked between it and the WiFi router and it still worked :)

    Came up with couple of ideas
    1. Implement Last Will and Testament on the connection to detect when box goes offline

    2. Make it flash the 10mm white LED to attract attention of people passing by

  9. The box is now screwed to the garden wall and operational :)

    So D1 Mini board in there with a 20Ah battery, running script publishing using to my broker cymplecy.uk on topic gardenlights. This received by on Pi in my house which uses UDP to update colour of the lights and also toots out to cheerlights

  10. The new ones plugged into the existing ones so now got double the lumens out there now :)

    // @amcewen

  11. More testing - this time from living room of the house

  12. We have worm-sign 🙂 The box changes the colour of my front garden lights.

  13. I was going to try testing out from the comfort of the computer room while watching my lights thru the door bell webcam but unfortunately, the lights are invisible during daylight so will have to wait till its gets a bit darker.

  14. Here is the @microblocks script that is detecting the button presses and sending the RGB code out to my broker

  15. @biglesp Have you got a spare biggish LED for my project so that the passers-by can get an indication that they've pressed a button?

    If so, could you bring it along on Saturday?

    fosstodon.org/@cymplecy/115600