BubLight

Light up your hookah with a Raspberry and a neopixel ring!

Get your RaspberryPi, connect the neopixel LED ring and the BMP180 pressure sensor to it, configure it, upload and start BubLight .jar file and you are ready to go! You can then connect to a BubLight web UI, where you can configure colors and light modes and see a nice graph showing realtime pressure!

NOTE

This hobby project is still a WORK IN PROGRESS. However, it had some successful demos :).

Build and start in simulated mode

Hardware parts (the LED ring and the pressure sensor) are simulated in the simulated mode.

Steps:

1. Clone and build BubLight repository. Go to the directory where you want to clone BubLight and execute:

   git clone https://github.com/Pyro2266/bublight.git
   cd bublight
   mvn clean install -P build-web
   

2. Go to the backend target directory: cd bublight-backend/target

3. Start .jar file in a simulated mode with command: java -jar bublight-backend-0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar --bublight.simulatedPressure=true --bublight.simulatedLed=true.

4. WebUI and REST endpoints are now available on localhost at port 8080.

5. Go to the WebUI (localhost:8080) and click things or play with Postman collection from the docs directory. Additionally, Swagger UI is available on URL http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html.

6. Enjoy! But keep in mind that everything is still under development and all the risk is on you :).

7. Feel free to leave feedback, create a PR, or an issue if something is not working.

Connection schema

Components used in demo:

• Raspberry Zero W 1.1
• GY-68 (BMP180)
• Adafruit Neopixel Ring (16x LED)

Build and start on Raspberry from scratch

1. Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager

2. Choose Raspberry Pi OS LITE and write it to the SD card (I'm using Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)).

3. To automatically connect to your Wi-Fi network (original guide here) go to the SD card (boot partition) and create file wpa_supplicant.conf in the root directory.

4. Open wpa_supplicant.conf file and write there configuration of your Wi-Fi (including country):

   country=SK
   ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
   update_config=1
   network={
   	ssid="MyWiFiNetwork"
   	psk="aVeryStrongPassword"
   	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
   }
   

5. (Optional) It is possible to include multiple networks. For example I'm using Wi-Fi network I have at home and hotspot from my phone. Just include another network block under the first one:

   network={
   	ssid="MyWiFiNetwork1"
   	psk="aVeryStrongPassword"
   	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
   }
   
   network={
   	ssid="MyWiFiNetwork2"
   	psk="aVeryStrongPassword"
   	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
   }
   

6. Enable SSH by creating empty file called ssh (without and file extension) in the SD card (the same place as Wi-Fi was configured).

7. Insert SD card into your Raspberry, power it up, wait a few seconds. Now find the IP address of your Raspberry in the network (I'm using android app called Fing).

8. With the address obtained in previous step you can connect via SSH to the Raspberry. Default credentials are username: pi and password: raspberry. Example ssh command: ssh [email protected].

9. With the SSH connectiou up update and install following tools: i2c-tools, wiringpi, swig, java 8 (unfortunately java 11 does not work with Raspberry Zero):

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install i2c-tools wiringpi swig openjdk-8-jre
   

10. Check if java 8 is installed: java -version. You should see openjdk version "1.8.0_212".

11. To enable I2C (original guide) and setup locale:

    1. Execute command sudo raspi-config.
    2. Go to Interface Options.
    3. Go to I2C and enable it.
    4. Go into Localisation Options and setup locale.

12. Check if I2C is ready with command: sudo i2cdetect -y 1. It should return:

         0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
    00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
    70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 77
    

13. Check if locale are correct with command: locale.

14. Create ~/bublight directory with command: mkdir ~/bublight. We will copy the application here.

15. Clone and build BubLight repository on your local computer (preferably in another console while keeping the SSH connection to the RPi open). Go to the directory where you want to clone BubLight and execute:

    git clone https://github.com/Pyro2266/bublight.git
    cd bublight
    mvn clean install -P build-web
    

16. Copy executable jar file (from bublight-backend/target directory) and application properties (from bublight-backend/src/main/resources directory) to the Raspberry (into the ~/bublight directory). Don't forget to update your IP address.

scp bublight-backend/target/bublight-backend-0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar pi@IP_OF_YOUR_RPI:~/bublight
scp bublight-backend/src/main/resources/application.properties pi@IP_OF_YOUR_RPI:~/bublight

17. Go back to the SSH session to Raspberry and go to the bublight directory we created before: cd ~/bublight.

18. Check application properties if everything is set up correctly (if simulated mode is turned off and number of LEDs is correct): nano application.properties.

19. Start BubLight with command: sudo java -jar bublight-backend-0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar. It takes a minute or two to start the application.

20. WebUI and REST endpoints are now available at port 8080.

21. Go to the WebUI (IP_OF_YOUR_RPI:8080) and click things or play with Postman collection from the docs directory. Additionally, Swagger UI is available on URL http://IP_OF_YOUR_RPI:8080/swagger-ui/index.html.

22. Enjoy! But keep in mind that everything is still under development and all the risk is on you :).

23. Feel free to leave feedback, create a PR, or an issue if something is not working.

Screenshot

To give an idea how does it look now (keep in mind that it's still under development).