Tri-Color USB Controlled Tower Light with Buzzer

SKU: ADA5125 Brand: Adafruit

With this Tri-Color USB Controlled Tower Light with Buzzer, you can easily monitor and alert humanoids as to the status of a project, machine, or even if...

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Description

With this Tri-Color USB Controlled Tower Light with Buzzer, you can easily monitor and alert humanoids as to the status of a project, machine, or even if the bathroom is occupied!

Unlike Adafruit's other tower lights, no wiring or microcontroller programming is required. It's completely plug-and-play for use with any computer that has a USB port, even a Raspberry Pi SBC - so they recommend it when you just want to get something running and don't want to noodle around with 12V power plugs and transistors. It's also got a great adjustable-angle body and three mounting holes on the base for easy installation.

The tower light is powered and controlled over USB, so just plug it right in. Inside is a microcontroller connected over a CH43x USB-to-UART chip, so you'll need to install a CH43x driver for the COM/Serial port to show up.

Once the serial port is created, connect to it over 9600 baud and send command codes to turn on and off the red, yellow and green LEDs and enable/disable the buzzer. There's also a blink command, so you don't have to continuously turn on/off the LED to have a pulsing/blinking effect. See below for an example Python script that will toggle everything on/off to test.

Technical Details

Dimensions:

Overall length: 25.4cm / 10"
Lamp diameter: 4.8cm / 1.8"
Lamp base diameter: ~9cm / 3.5"
USB cable length: 1.3m / ~50"

Python code example to control the lamp over USB:

"""


Example for Adafruit USB tower light w/alarm


don't forge to `pip install pyserial` or `pip3 install pyserial`


"""





import serial


import time





serialPort = 'COM57'  # Change to the serial/COM port of the tower light


#serialPort = '/dev/USBserial0'  # on mac/linux, it will be a /dev path


baudRate = 9600





RED_ON = 0x11


RED_OFF = 0x21


RED_BLINK = 0x41





YELLOW_ON= 0x12


YELLOW_OFF = 0x22


YELLOW_BLINK = 0x42





GREEN_ON = 0x14


GREEN_OFF = 0x24


GREEN_BLINK = 0x44





BUZZER_ON = 0x18


BUZZER_OFF = 0x28


BUZZER_BLINK = 0x48





def sendCommand(serialport, cmd):


    serialport.write(bytes([cmd]))





if __name__ == '__main__':


    mSerial = serial.Serial(serialPort, baudRate)





    # Clean up any old state


    sendCommand(mSerial, BUZZER_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_OFF)





    # turn on each LED set in order


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_ON)


    time.sleep(0.5)


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_OFF)





    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_ON)


    time.sleep(0.5)


    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_OFF)





    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_ON)


    time.sleep(0.5)


    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_OFF)





    # beep!


    sendCommand(mSerial, BUZZER_ON)


    time.sleep(0.1)


    sendCommand(mSerial, BUZZER_OFF)





    # Use the built-in blink modes


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_BLINK)


    time.sleep(3)


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_OFF)





    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_BLINK)


    time.sleep(3)


    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_OFF)





    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_BLINK)


    time.sleep(3)


    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_OFF)





    # Please be kind, re-wind!


    sendCommand(mSerial, BUZZER_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, RED_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, YELLOW_OFF)


    sendCommand(mSerial, GREEN_OFF)


    mSerial.close()

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