Arduino Based Home Automation Dusk To Dawn Lighting Timer Based On Vintage Sangamo Suntracker

Details of my simple home-automation lighting timer project, using an Arduino microcontroller and an RF remote socket system which was inspired by the vintage Sangamo Weston S351 Suntracker 'dawn until dusk' round pattern time switch.

No machining at all this time from The Recreational Machinist (though I did make the brackets and standoffs from acetal). And for a change, no background music.

Made with subtitles -click the CC box.

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Some links with background information:
History about daylight saving in the UK: https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/British-Summer-Time/

Anyone interested in the 1968 British Standard Time experiment might like to read some of the parliamentary debate of the time that led to it being abandoned: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1970/dec/02/british-standard-time

Information on the possibility of the UK no longer observing daylight savings: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/daylight-saving-time-european-parliament-vote

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I'm not posting my clumsy, inelegantly written code (it would be very hard for others to follow) but I thought it worth including details of some of the most useful libraries I experimented with during development.

DM Kishi’s Dusk2Dawn library ( https://github.com/dmkishi/Dusk2Dawn ) does the heavy lifting in regard to sunset and sunrise times.

The library gives apparent times and in my application any difference between apparent, civil, nautical and astronomical is of little importance -so long as my lights come on.

Mikal Hart’s TinyGPS++ ( http://arduiniana.org/libraries/tinygpsplus/ ) library takes care of GPS NMEA data stream processing.

Adafruit’s RTClib (https://github.com/adafruit/RTClib ) interfaces the real time clock.

Bill Greiman’s SSD1306Ascii (https://arduinolibraries.info/libraries/ssd1306-ascii ) is the lightweight library which drives the 128x64 pixel OLED display with text.

Naguissa’s uEEPROMLib (https://github.com/Naguissa/uRTCLib ) takes care of non volatile storage of latitude and longitude coordinates.

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For the material I couldn't capture myself, my thanks goes to the following:

Sunrise and sunset time lapse footage by Beachfront B-Roll.
http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )

Lord Wilson photo by Allan Warren.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Harold_Wilson_2_Allan_Warren.jpg
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en )

Dawn Chorus audio by sean.townsend.
https://freesound.org/s/98371/
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )

Owl Hoots by Breviceps
https://freesound.org/s/465697/
Licensed under a Creative Commons 0 License. ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ )

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Shot: HDC-HS700 1920x1080 50P AVCHD
Edit: FCP7 ProRes 422
Mic: DR-05

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