Inspiration
Our body’s natural rhythm is tuned to the rise and fall of the sun. However, spending time indoors with the lights on messes up this rhythm. Existing software exists to emulate this cycle with a computer monitor, but the monitor is not our primary source of light.
What it does
FluxLight controls a WiFi enabled light bulb to emulate this natural cycle
How we built it
We utilized lambda on Amazon web services to have Alexa send commands to our python HTTP server which controls a LIFX light bulb over Wi-Fi.
Challenges we ran into
MySQL refused to work. Sending requests from lambda to a local server was a challenge also. We solved this by continuously polling commands from NJIT AFS. AWS lambda sent requests by Alexa to AFS.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting it to work.
What we learned
How to use AWS lambda, Alexa by Amazon, to control Wi-Fi light through Python, and to run an HTTP server through python.
What's next for Flux Light
More commands and integration with other services.
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