PiAlarm

An alarm system on a Pi

This will run a morning alarm system on a Raspberry Pi.

The system includes an LED strip which will simulate a sunrise for an hour before the alarm is set to go off.

Scheduled tasks
- Add to the superuser's cron jobs (sudo crontab -e)
  - @reboot /absolute/path/to/project/bash/startServer.sh
  - */5 * * * * /absolute/path/to/project/bash/updateScheduledAlarms.sh
Configure nginx to use PHP
- Edit /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
  - Add index.php to the line that resembles index index.html index.htm;
  - Uncomment the following lines

location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

Configure MySQL
- Create database Alarm
  - Create table Alarm with fields
    - ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT (PK)
    - Days VARCHAR(7)
    - Hour INT
    - Minute INT
    - Active BOOLEAN
  - Create table User with fields
    - ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT (PK)
    - Username VARCHAR(150)
    - Password VARCHAR(150)
    - Token VARCHAR(150)
Configure alarm tone
- Place .wav or .mp3 files in the alarmTones subdirectory; one of these files will be chosen at random each time the alarm sounds
Set up bluetooth speaker connection
- Give user permission to use bluetooth (sudo usermod -G bluetooth -a pi)
- Give root user permission to use bluetooth (sudo usermod -G bluetooth -a root)
- Start audio server at boot (Add pulseaudio --start to the end of .bashrc)
- Pair the device manually

bluetoothctl
power on
agent on
scan on
pair [MAC]
trust [MAC]
connect [MAC]
quit