onkyo-notifier

Use a Raspberry Pi Zero to continually monitor and notify of the Zone 2 power status of my Onkyo Receiver by flashing LEDs. This helps alert the house that we have left the outdoor entertaining speakers on.

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Install

• Requires installation on a Raspberry Pi due to blinkt!'s dependency on RPi.GPIO module.

$ python -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

$ python onkyo_zone2_status.py

Scheduled task

Run regularly on the Raspberry Pi as a scheduled task in crontab

$ crontab -e # edit cron table

*/2 * * * * /home/pi/.pyenv/shims/python3 /home/pi/bin/blinkt-proj-1/onkyo_zone2_status.py > /home/pi/logs/onkyo_zone2_status.log 2>&1

Author

Daniel Bowden

github.com/danielbowden

twitter.com/danielgbowden