wraggster
June 7th, 2013, 00:25
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/rpi-google-calendar-alarm-clock.png?w=580&h=326
We know a lot of people love using their smart phone as a bedside alarm clock. The problem is that a mobile phone is mobile by nature and eventually you’ll forget to put it in the bedroom one night. That’s why we like the solution that [Devon Bray] has chosen. He set up his Raspberry Pi as an alarm clock that is set using Google Calendar (http://www.esologic.com/?p=634).
The setup which he shows off in his video is quite simple. The Raspberry Pi is connected to a set of powered computer speakers. It plays a song whenever an appointment called “wake” comes up on his Google Calendar. This is accomplished by using the Google Data APIs Python Client Library (https://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/) (isn’t that a mouthful?).
This only scratches the surface of what is possible. With this in place you could easily add LEDs to the room for a sunrise alarm (http://hackaday.com/2013/01/25/sunrise-alarm-clock-mounted-above-the-bed/). But if you’d prefer a more bare-bones hardware side of things that’s possible too (http://hackaday.com/2012/04/25/automating-household-devices-with-google-calendar/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/06/06/alarm-clock-uses-raspberry-pi-to-poll-google-calendar/
We know a lot of people love using their smart phone as a bedside alarm clock. The problem is that a mobile phone is mobile by nature and eventually you’ll forget to put it in the bedroom one night. That’s why we like the solution that [Devon Bray] has chosen. He set up his Raspberry Pi as an alarm clock that is set using Google Calendar (http://www.esologic.com/?p=634).
The setup which he shows off in his video is quite simple. The Raspberry Pi is connected to a set of powered computer speakers. It plays a song whenever an appointment called “wake” comes up on his Google Calendar. This is accomplished by using the Google Data APIs Python Client Library (https://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/) (isn’t that a mouthful?).
This only scratches the surface of what is possible. With this in place you could easily add LEDs to the room for a sunrise alarm (http://hackaday.com/2013/01/25/sunrise-alarm-clock-mounted-above-the-bed/). But if you’d prefer a more bare-bones hardware side of things that’s possible too (http://hackaday.com/2012/04/25/automating-household-devices-with-google-calendar/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/06/06/alarm-clock-uses-raspberry-pi-to-poll-google-calendar/