Published May 21, 2019 © Apache-2.0

EASY Motion Detection

Simple motion detection that logs movement into a Google Sheet. Requirements: Photon, PIR Motion Sensor, IFTTT, and Google Sheets,

BeginnerWork in progress1 hour809

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Particle Photon

PIR HC--SR501 Body Sensor Module

Multicolored Dupont Wire 40pin Male to Female

Software apps and online services

IFTTT

Story

Create a simple motion detection and save activity to Google Sheets.

Step 1: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Connect your sensor to a digital or analog input on the Photon. Follow these examples for hooking up common sensors.

Set Up the Hardware

On the PIR sensor itself, with the back of the PCB facing up, find the two small potentiometers. The one on the left controls the range of the sensor (3-7 meters), and the one on the right controls how long the sensor stays triggered once tripped (1.5 - 300 seconds).

Set the left (range potentiometer) to middle of dial.
Set the right (timing potentiometer) all the way to the left (counterclockwise) to maximize its timing resolution.

Now we'll connect the PIR sensor to the Photon. Press the sensor into the upper-left corner of your breadboard, then connect it to the Photon as follows:

Step 2: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Step 3: Connect to IFTTT Recipe

This recipe captures event and saves to Google Sheet.

Go here to get recipe
Change event name to area you want to monitor (example: kitchen, storageroom, office, etc.)

Step 4: Flash Code

Go to https://build.particle.io/
Copy/paste below code
Flash Photon

Step 5: Test & See Results in Google Sheets

Go https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
Click GO TO GOOGLE SHEETS
Walk around sensor to trigger
Date should now be added to Google Sheets (example below)

Code

EasyMonitor

//Motion Sensor send to IFTTT and Save to Google Sheet

int ledPin = D7; // we will use D7 LED to monitor sensor activity
int pir = D0; //connect the PIR output to pin D0 of the Electron

void setup() {
    pinMode(pir, INPUT_PULLDOWN);// set sensor as input
    pinMode(ledPin,OUTPUT); // set LED as output
}

void loop() {
    if (digitalRead(pir) == HIGH) {
      digitalWrite(ledPin,HIGH); //show the activity of the sensor with the onboard D7 LED
      Particle.publish("kitchen","HIGH",60); //change event name 
      delay(1000);
        while (digitalRead(pir) == HIGH); // wait for the sensor to return back to normal
    }
    digitalWrite(ledPin,LOW);
}

Credits

Charles Konkol

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EASY Motion Detection

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Step 1: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Set Up the Hardware

Step 2: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Step 3: Connect to IFTTT Recipe

Step 4: Flash Code

Step 5: Test & See Results in Google Sheets

Schematics

EASY MONITOR

Code

EasyMonitor

Credits

Charles Konkol

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EASY Motion Detection

EASY Motion Detection

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Step 1: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Set Up the Hardware

Step 2: Connect Motion Sensor to Photon

Step 3: Connect to IFTTT Recipe

Step 4: Flash Code

Step 5: Test & See Results in Google Sheets

Schematics

EASY MONITOR

Code

EasyMonitor

Credits

Charles Konkol

Comments

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