I would like to connect an ambient light sensor to the USB port of my OpenWrt-powered router. Unluckily, GPIO is not available, so I'm looking for some USB stuff.
Searching for "ambient" in the package repositories reveals that "kmod-iio-bh1750" and "kmod-iio-tsl4531" are available, both are i2c based.
So I think I need an USB-to-i2C adapter. I read this https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/hardware/usb.i2c-tiny-usb and I am willing to buy an i2c-tiny-usb adapter, but it looks as if you can't buy it, instead you need to to buy the parts, solder them and flash the firmware to it, which is more than I can handle.
I have no problems patching the kernel sources or creating customized OpenWrt builds.
Does anyone of you know of a USB ambient light sensor with OpenWrt support or an USB-i2c-adapter I could buy?
Why so much hassle, when all you need is a esp32 or Esp8266 device + ambiant light sensor.
Flash esp32 or esp8266 using esphome web tools.
lhttps://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/.
I could also use an old raspberry and connect the BH1750 to its' GPIO pins, but I'm trying to minimize the number of devices I need to take care of. I have a Netgear R7800 (just AP, no router) in the attic next to the window, providing wireless access to the garden. So I thought that I could extend this device to provide outside light intensity values so that my home assistant installation knows when to close the roller shutters and to switch on the outside lighting. Currently this is done depending on the sun's altidude, but that does not take into account cloudy weather.
I have now ordered a digispark USB plug, a BH1750 and two 10k resistors and will try to get them soldered together (just 8 soldering points altogether). That should provide me with the hardware I was searching for.
