ANAVI Light pHAT - Control Your RGB LED Strip

The ANAVI Light pHAT is an open-source hardware and expansion board for Raspberry Pi that controls a 12V RGB LED strip. The board also supports sensors for light, temperature, humidity, gesture recognition, and motion detection.

The ANAVI Light pHAT is fully compatible with the popular open-source home automation platform Home Assistant. Thanks to the ANAVI application, the ANAVI Light pHAT is seamlessly integrated into Home Assistant as an MQTT JSON Light component.

The ANAVI Light pHAT was designed using the free and open-source application KiCAD. All source files are available in our GitHub repository. All boards will be manufactured locally in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Getting started with this expansion board is easy, no soldering is required. A comprehensive user manual will be provided with detailed steps on how to use the ANAVI Light pHAT on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux distribution.

Who Needs It and Why?

The ANAVI Light pHAT is fun and easy to use. No prior experience is necessary. You don’t need to be a technical genius to use it. Detailed steps to get started are outlined in the user manual. To assemble it, all you need are your hands and a screwdriver to connect the RGB LED strip.

The ANAVI Light pHAT is entertaining and user-friendly. No previous experience is needed. You can build it without any tools, just a screwdriver is required to connect your RGB LED strip.

• Lighting automation using the open-source software platform Home Assistant
• Create a do-it-yourself magic lamp controlled by gestures
• Design unique decorations for holidays
• Explore a project that combines open-source software with open-source hardware

Features and Specifications

• Terminal block for connecting a 12V RGB LED strip
• Slots for up to three plug and play I2C sensor modules
• Slot for PIR motion sensor
• UART pins for debugging
• EEPROM containing board manufacturer information and a device tree fragment

Compatibility

The ANAVI Light pHAT works with Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi A+, Raspberry Pi B+, Raspberry Pi 0, and Raspberry Pi 0 W.

The ANAVI Light pHAT officially supports the PIR motion sensor, as well as the following I2C modules:

• BH1750 light sensor
• HTU21D temperature and humidity sensor
• APDS-9960 RGB color and gesture detection sensor

You can also connect any other I2C sensor, but you will need to manage their software integration.

The PIR motion sensor allows automatic lighting when someone walks by. The temperature and humidity sensor can be utilized to create a weather station as a secondary function of your Raspberry Pi. The gesture detection sensor is a great addition for defining custom hand gestures to control lighting or simply to create a modern version of Aladdin’s magic lamp.

For more information, visit the product page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/anavi-technology/light-phat 

What's in the box: 1x ANAVI Light pHAT board