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      09-19-2020, 07:33 PM   #10
vreihen16
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Originally Posted by bimmer pleaser V2 View Post
I pretty much finished it and planning to pitch it to a fat cat then found out a "WIFI based light controller" was patented a few years ago.

MCU board is an off-the-shelf ESP32.
Does someone have a patent on the same device with an internal UV sensor, timer, and live report of the exposure power/duration via wifi? If not, it's my gift to you.

Interesting story - I breadboarded this up with a NodeMCU (ESP32) a few years back, when I wanted a third opinion on light/UV readings against two of my weather stations. The Lux and UV i2c breakout modules are on the edge of the board, so that they could be mounted facing the sky with the breadboard vertical:



Never did anything with it after determining that these two sensors had lousy factory calibrations in sunlight and suspect Arduino support libraries.....
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