Designing lighting product prototype (PWM, development free)

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Overview

Technology is constantly progressing, and more and more smart homes are entering our daily life. Smart lights are commonly used at home and the workplace.

After the smart lights are installed, you can easily adjust the indoor color and brightness by using App, and can set different lighting scene for different occasions, creating a warm, relaxing, interesting and inspiring living space, which greatly enriches our lives.

Based on the Tuya Smart platform, a smart light can be developed simply and quickly. This tutorial introduces how to use the Tuya sandwich development board to quickly complete a smart light product prototype.

Materials

Hardware (3)
  • Tuya Sandwich (PWM) lighting function board

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  • Tuya Sandwich Wi-Fi SoC main control board (TYE3S)

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  • Tuya Sandwich Power Board

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Steps

  • Step 1: Creating products

    1. Log on to Tuya IoT platform, create a multicolor light (RGBCW) _Wi-Fi lighting product.

    2. Select the function and display panel of the product, and configure the firmware information according to the hardware circuit of the sandwich development board. For more information, see Creating a Plug-and-Play RGBCW Lamp on the Tuya Smart Platform.

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    Sandwich development board is used in this demo, you need to configure the firmware information as follows.

    Setting Configuration
    Red drive pin-R GPIO13
    Green drive pin-G GPIO4
    Blue drive pin-B GPIO5
    White drive pin-C/Bright GPIO14
    Warm drive pin-W/CCT GPIO12
    Others The default

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  • Step 2: Downloading firmware

    To make the device have the configuration function of the first step, you must download the relevant configuration information into the module, and attach it to Tuya Sandwich Evaluation Kits,

    1. Visit the Tuya sandwich development board management platform, and register the development board, apply for an authorization code and an account.

    2. Choose the authorization code, log on the software, and enter the authorization code to download. For more information, see Download firmware and authorization code process.

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  • Step 3: Network configuration test of App

    In this demo, the control light is powered on and off for three times.

    If the light flickers rapidly, it enters the network configuration state. You can connect and use it via Tuya Smart app, choose lighting (Wi-Fi) category, for the next operation under the orders of the APP, connect the device to the cloud, you can use the App to control the device now.

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  • Step 4: Smart speaker test for extended function

    Tuya provides the most popular smart speaker control devices, such as Amazon Alexa. You can visit the IoT Platform Value-added Service, activate the speaker service.

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    You can view the brand of the speaker at the product details page. Subsequently, you can refer to the Quick Guide of Using Amazon Echo to Control Smart Devices to grant the device to the smart speaker platform. Also, you can use the smart speaker to control the device, for more information, see Third-party Access.

  • Step 5: Production test for extended function

    During mass production, you must test the communication and control capabilities of the products to spot the defective products, and guarantee the quality of the products. Tuya integrates the test process at the time of production into the module, for more information, see Production test of Wi-Fi lighting products.

Summary

Based on the Tuya platform and the Tuya sandwich development board, the prototype construction of a smart lighting product can be completed quickly and conveniently, which greatly accelerated the development of the product.