Movement detection with Raspberry Pi and BBMagic MOTION: building C application

So, install CR2032 battery in BBMagic MOTION’s battery holder – thats pretty easy. Next install the module itself – very easy too. BBMagic MOTION is wireless and therefore there is no need for installing power lines or signal wires. BBMagic MOTION is very light so the good idea is to use double-sided adhesive tape for installation… like here in bathroom. Retro installation without any housing.

And now let’s write a little code using ‘bbmagic_lib’ library for Raspberry Pi.

Application files

Our project contains several files:

• bbmagic_lib_1.2.a – it is library for receiving data from BBMagic devices through Bluetooth Low Energy radio link. It’s for Raspberry Pi zero W and Raspberry Pi 3 which have Bluetooth LE chipset onboard.
• bbmagic_lib.h – it is bbmagic_lib header file containing definitions and constants
• libbluetooth.a – it is library from libbluetooth-dev Debian package that contains development files for using the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth library.
• bbmagic_motion_sketch.c – it is our main application ‘C’ file
• Makefile – it contains compilation instructions for make program

Project preparation

Make new directory for our project on your Raspberry Pi: mkdir bbmagic_motion_sketch
and go there:cd bbmagic_motion_sketch
Open your favorite file editor and if you have not one try nano – its simple and intuitive:nano bbmagic_motion_sketch.c

Writing app for BBMagic MOTION

1. Include header files required and put main function#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "bbmagic_lib.h"
int main(void)
{

2. Variables declarationsunsigned char bbm_buf[BBLIB_FRAME_SIZE] ;
int i, adc1, adc2, data_length ;
float vcc_f ;
time_t timestamp ;
struct tm *loctime ;
char time_buffer[TIME_BUF_SIZE] ;;


• bbm_buf – buffer for BBMagic MOTION sensor data. Its size ‘BBLIB_FRAME_SIZE’ is defined in ‘bbmagic_lib.h’ file
• vcc_f – contains BBMagic MAGNETO power supply voltage
• adc1, adc2 – for samples from ADC_1 and ADC_2 inputs
• timestamp,*loctime, time_buffer[TIME_BUF_SIZE] – for local time operation
• i, data_length – data counters

3. Checking out bbmagic_lib library version
If this is 0x0102 version its ok – our app can play with it.
i = bbm_bt_lib_version() ;
printf("bbm_lib_version: %0.4X - ",i) ;
if(i == 0x0102) printf("ok\n") ;
else
{
printf("nok - stop\n\n") ;
exit(1) ;
}

4. Turn on BBMagic Bluetooth communication
i = bbm_bt_open(17) ;
if(i) exit(2) ;

THe bbm_bt_open(..) function gets pin number with LED connected. It indicates BBMagic Bluetooth transfer. Pin number should be in range from 1 to 27. If out of this range BBMagic Bluetooth transmission indication is off.
You can connect LED in two different ways:

5. Waiting for BBMagic data
do
{
data_length = bbm_bt_read(bbm_buf) ;
if(data_length > 0)
{

If data arrives it is in ‘bbm_buf’ buffer.

• data_length > 0 : received ‘data_length’ bytes of data from BBMagic sensor
• data_length == 0 : there is no data received
• data_length == -1 : user break by ‘ctrl+c’
• data_length == -10 : BBMagic data authentication error

All possible returned values are defined in ‘bbmagic_lib.h’ file.

6. Is received data from BBMagic MOTION?
switch(bbm_buf[BBMAGIC_DEVICE_TYPE])
{
case BBMAGIC_M_MOTION :

Constants ‘BBMAGIC_DEVICE_TYPE’ and ‘BBMAGIC_M_MOTION’ are defined in ‘bbmagic_lib.h’ file.

7. Displaying time
timestamp = time(NULL) ; //-Get the current time
loctime = localtime(×tamp) ; //-Convert it to local time representation
strftime (time_buffer, TIME_BUF_SIZE, "%X", loctime) ; //-Convert it to string
printf("\n %s ", time_buffer) ; //-Send to console


8. Checking motion detection flag
If the flag is set show information:if(bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_FLAGS] & BBM_MOTION_ALERT_MASK)
{
printf(" OBJECT DETECTED !!") ;
}
Constants ‘BBM_MOTION_FLAGS’ and ‘BBM_MOTION_ALERT_MASK’ are defined in ‘bbmagic_lib.h’ header file.

9. Calculating and displaying the information from BBMagic MOTION

• Display module name:printf("\n BBM_MOTION addr: ") ;
• And then six bytes of module addressfor(i=0; i<BBM_BT_ADDR_SIZE; i++)
printf("%0.2X", bbm_buf[BBMAGIC_DEVICE_ADDR_5 + i]) ;
• Calculate and display modules supply voltagevcc_f = (float)bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_V_SUP] ; vcc_f/=BBMAGIC_VCC_DIVIDER ;
printf(" < %0.2fV", vcc_f) ;
• Display radio signal strengthprintf(" | %ddBm", (signed char)bbm_buf[BBMAGIC_DEVICE_RSSI]) ;

• BBMagic MOTION firmware version:printf(" | firm.%0.2X.%0.2X",bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_FIRM_1], bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_FIRM_0]) ;
printf(" >\n") ;
• Show working time from power up (in seconds)i =bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_WORKTIME_3] ; i<<=8 ;
i |=bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_WORKTIME_2] ; i<<=8 ;
i |=bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_WORKTIME_1] ; i<<=8 ;
i |=bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_WORKTIME_0] ;
printf(" %4ds",i) ;

• Light level, chip temperature and flagsprintf(" L=%d chT=%d*C F=%0.2X", bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_LIGHT], (signed char)bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_CHIP_TEMP], bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_FLAGS]) ;

• ADC_1 and ADC_2 inputs voltageadc1 =bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_ADC_1_MSB] ; adc1 *=256 ; adc1 +=bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_ADC_1_LSB] ;
adc2 =bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_ADC_2_MSB] ; adc2 *=256 ; adc2 +=bbm_buf[BBM_MOTION_ADC_2_LSB] ;
printf(" ADC1=%dmV ADC2=%dmV", adc1, adc2) ;


10. Close 'switch' statement
If there is received data from other BBMagic sensor lets show its address and type.
default:
printf("BBM_UNKNOWN_") ;
for(i=0; i<BBM_BT_ADDR_SIZE; i++) printf("%0.2X", bbm_buf[BBMAGIC_DEVICE_ADDR_5 + i]) ;
printf(" BBM_TYPE=%0.2X", bbm_buf[BBMAGIC_DEVICE_TYPE]) ;
break ;
} ;
11. Close 'if(data_length > 0)' statement
printf("\n") ;
}

12. Close 'do{' statement
Wait 100 microseconds and do receive loop again untill 'ctrl+c' is pressed (bbm_bt_read(..) function returns -1).
usleep(100) ;
}while(data_length != -1) ;

13. Close BBMagic Bluetooth communication
If 'ctrl+c' pressed the program ends.
bbm_bt_close() ;
exit(0) ;
}

And its done !!
Press 'ctrl+X' then 'Y' and hit 'Enter' to save bbmagic_motion_sketch.c file.
Compile project using Makefile conf file like this:
PRG =bbmagic_motion_sketch
BBM_LIB =bbmagic_lib_1.2
all: clean
gcc -o $(PRG) $(PRG).c $(BBM_LIB).a libbluetooth.a
clean:
rm -f $(PRG)


After compilaton you can run application and get on the screen something like this: