Automate Toilet Light

In this article, I will automate the lights in the toilet and shoe closet at the entrance.

Exceptionally, no home automation equipment, just presence detectors in addition.

Of course, as I have to do, I say: if you are not a certified electrician, certified with a thousand very expensive papers and authorisations from independent and very expensive bodies, Do not touch electricity, it is dangerous.

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I check the Redox production of the salt electrolyser in my pool

Objective

On my salt electrolyser, I have a blue LED that indicates that production is ongoing, if it goes out, I would like my home automation system (Jeedom or Home Assistant) to know to warn me.

I was not going to disassemble the electrolyser to recover a power supply or not from the LED, even if I was itchy, I looked at how to recover rather the ‘visual’ info of the LED on or off.

My idea was to find out if there was a brightness detector, which was simple to interface on my computer. Existing control management system for my pool. My system using an I2C port, I looked for this type of chip and it had to be interfacing on Esp Easy for simplicity.

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