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LED automations

LED automations are ways to automatically control the 4 available LEDs in the Pioreactor. These LEDs can be used as a light source for photosynthetic microbes, influence the environment of the microbes, as additional sensors, or improve existing sensors.

Available LED automations​

Silent​

Requires: None

The silent automation is the simplest automation: doing nothing. The automation will still "wake up" every duration minutes, but does nothing.

Light/Dark cycle​

Requires: up to 2 LEDs, in channels C and D.

This automation will turn the LEDs in channels C & D on and off on a predetermined scheduale, specified by light_duration_minutes and dark_duration_minutes. The intensity of the LED is given by light_intensity. The LEDs start ON. Note: duration is permanently set to be 1 minute.

The LEDs should go in pockets X2 and X3 on the Pioreactor.

tip

If using the Light/Dark cycle, you can add the settings to be displayed in the UI by editing the following file on your leader:

nano /var/www/pioreactorui/contrib/jobs/06_led_automation.yaml

And adding the following to the bottom of that file:

  - key: light_intensity
    type: numeric
    display: true
    unit: "%"
    label: Light ON intensity
    description: The intensity when light is ON.
  - key: light_duration_minutes
    type: numeric
    display: true
    unit: min
    label: "Light ON for"
    description: How long should the light be ON for?
  - key: dark_duration_minutes
    type: numeric
    display: true
    unit: min
    label: "Light OFF for"
    description: How long should the light be OFF for?

Save and exit, and refresh the UI.