PIR-triggered Staircase Lighting – with @IFTTT IoT Integration | #IoTuesday

These stairs look pretty great!

I like the idea of walking through the house without having to press a button to switch on the lights. I wanted to have something like this on our staircase, also having in mind you may walk the stairs with your hands busy with something (or someone 🙂 ). I wanted to make my own automatic switch to enable animations and effects (hence a micro-controlled solution) and I like LEDs in principle but the dots are too geeky (hence a LED strip in an aluminum profile with a glossy diffuser). Plus, I wanted to have an extra motion-detection alarm for our house (hence a wifi-enabled micro-controller, the IFTTT integration, so finally an IoT solution).

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1 Comment

  1. Hi,

    Nice job. Pretty clean and very good integration !

    I done something very similar few years ago when living in France but could not fully use it because my insurance tell me that it was not allowed (if there is some wiring it should be done by a professional).

    I m wondering if it is OK in the US to let some homemade device plug in the house all day ? Will your insurance cover if it start a fire ? Did anybody done some research on this ?

    Cheers, Charles

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