Interactive Christmas Decoration – Part 4: Server, LED, RGB

Interactive Christmas Decoration with RGB LED and Server function

Now, it is time to upgrade our project a little bit. In order to show different colors we are going to use a RGB-LED.

RGB LED common cathode

A RGB-LED is a basically a LED with three LEDs build in. It usually comes with four legs. One is shared by all three LEDs. There are common cathode and common anode types. In this example we will use a common cathode RGB-LED. This means all three colors share the common leg – the cathode – which needs to be connected to the GND. The remaining legs are for each of the three colors: red, green, blue.

Circuit

The common cathode of the RGB-LED is connected to the GND, the other three legs are connected to the pins D2, D5 and D6.

Code

The code is extending our recent example: Interactive Christmas Decoration – Part 3: Server and LED

The handleArgs()-Methode is now listening for three more arguments: d2pin, d5pin and d6 pin.


void handleArgs() { 
  if (server.arg("d2pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d2state = server.arg("d2pin").toInt();   // set d2 pin to received argument
  }
  if (server.arg("d5pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d5state = server.arg("d5pin").toInt();   // set d5 pin to received argument
    Serial.println(d5state);
  }
  if (server.arg("d6pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d6state = server.arg("d6pin").toInt();   // set d6 pin to received argument
  }
  if (server.arg("d7pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d7state = server.arg("d7pin").toInt();   // set d7 pin to received argument
  }
  
  the_webpage();                             // deliver webpage
}

We are using the analog output (analogWrite) what accepts values from 0 to 255 compared to the digital output (digitalWrite) what only can be switched on or off.

Get the complete code here:

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>

const char* ssid  = "XXXXXXXX";        // Wifi name (SSID)
const char* password = "XXXXXXXX";  // Wifi password

ESP8266WebServer server(80);    // Server port
String Temp = "";

int d2pin = 4;   // RGB LED - Red
int d2state = 255;

int d5pin = 14;   // RGB LED - Green
int d5state = 255;

int d6pin = 12;   // RGB LED - Blue
int d6state = 255;

int d7pin = D7;
int d7state = 0;


/* ***** ***** ***** ***** HTML ***** ***** ***** ***** */

const char HTML_header[] PROGMEM = R"=====(
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">
    <title>WebSchalter</title>
</head>

<style>
    html {
        background-color: grey;
    }

    body {
        margin: auto;
        
        margin-top: 60px;
    }

    button {
        height: 120px;
        width: 100%;
        font-size: 48px;
        background-color: cornflowerblue;
        border: none;
        color: white;
        margin-bottom: 10px;
    }
    
    button:active {
        background-color: darkturquoise;
        color: white;
        border: none;
    }
    
    button.on{
        background-color: red;
    }

    a {
        text-decoration: none;
    }

    
    
</style>

<body>

<a href="\args?d2pin=255&d5pin=0&d6pin=0"><button>RED</button></a>
<a href="\args?d2pin=0&d5pin=255&d6pin=0"><button>GREEN</button></a>
<a href="\args?d2pin=0&d5pin=0&d6pin=255"><button>BLUE</button></a>

)=====";

String HTML_d7_off = "<a href=\"/args?d7pin=1\"><button>d7 - LED</button></a>";
String HTML_d7_on = "<a href=\"/args?d7pin=0\"><button class=\"on\">d7 - LED</button></a>";

const char HTML_footer[] PROGMEM = R"=====(
</body>
</html>
)=====";

/* ***** ***** ***** ***** Setup ***** ***** ***** ***** */
void setup()
{
  pinMode(d2pin , OUTPUT);                  // D2 set as Output
  pinMode(d5pin , OUTPUT);                  // D5 set as Output
  pinMode(d6pin , OUTPUT);                  // D6 set as Output
  pinMode(d7pin , OUTPUT);                  // D7 set as Output
  Serial.begin(115200);                     // start serial communication
  connectToWifi();                          // start wifi
}

/* ***** Webpage: executed when "http://<ip address>/" is called ***** */

void the_webpage() {
  Temp = HTML_header;                        // top part of the html
  
  if (d7state == 1) {                        // d7 part of html page – the html code for a button
    Temp += HTML_d7_on;
  } else {
    Temp += HTML_d7_off;
  }
  
  Temp += HTML_footer;                       // bottom part of the html page
  server.send(200, "text/html", Temp);       // serving the html page
}

/* ***** ***** ***** ***** Event Functions ***** ***** ***** ***** */

void handleArgs() { 
  if (server.arg("d2pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d2state = server.arg("d2pin").toInt();   // set d2 pin to received argument
  }
  if (server.arg("d5pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d5state = server.arg("d5pin").toInt();   // set d5 pin to received argument
    Serial.println(d5state);
  }
  if (server.arg("d6pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d6state = server.arg("d6pin").toInt();   // set d6 pin to received argument
  }
  if (server.arg("d7pin")!= ""){             // if specific argument is not empty
    d7state = server.arg("d7pin").toInt();   // set d7 pin to received argument
  }
  
  the_webpage();                             // deliver webpage
}

/* ***** ***** ***** Wifi Functions ***** ***** ***** */

void showStates(){                           // map all states to pins
  digitalWrite(d7pin, d7state);              // LED
  analogWrite(d2pin, d2state);               // RGB LED red
  analogWrite(d5pin, d5state);               // RGB LED green
  analogWrite(d6pin, d6state);               // RGB LED blue
}

/* ***** ***** ***** ***** Loop ***** ***** ***** ***** */

void loop() {
  server.handleClient();                     // update function for server
  showStates();                              // map states to pins
  delay(10);                                 // some time to process
}

/* ***** ***** ***** Wifi Functions ***** ***** ***** */

void connectToWifi() {  
  Serial.println();
  Serial.print("Connect to"); Serial.println(ssid);   
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");             
  }

  Serial.println("");
  Serial.println("Wifi connected");
  Serial.println ("Webserver running, waiting for ESP8266 ...");

  delay(2000);
  Serial.println();
  Serial.println("IP addresse of the web server is: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());   // output the ip
  server.on("/", the_webpage);      // show website on root call 
  server.on("/args", handleArgs);   // associate the handler function to the path

  server.begin();                   // start the server
  Serial.println ("Webserver running, waiting for ESP8266 ...");
}

The Complete Tutorial


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