How to control your house with OpenBCI & a blink of an eye

Last Updated on April 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Our favorite paper using OpenBCI is the paper about

BCI Based Home Automation using User Controlled Blinks

by

Sebastián Poveda Zavala, Kelvin Ortíz Chicaiza, José Luis Murillo López, Juan Sulca and Sang Guun Yoo

from the

Departamento de Informática y Ciencias de la Computación, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

and the

Smart Lab, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

  • It uses an OpenBCI Cyton, an Odroid-XU4, a Raspberry 3 B+, an LCD screen, a cloud sever with MQTT to control an IOT light bulb and a TV device with the blink of an eye.
  • Unfortunately, the authors of the paper did not publish the code, so we can offer the authors a job to implement it or recode the circuit which is beond our coding skills.
  • But we still miss an instruction from How To Electronics or from YouTuber Andreas Spiess, the guy with the Swiss accent who implements this circuit.

But as long as the issues we described in this journal are not updated there will be a gap between OpenBCI users who use OpenBCI GUI, LSL and Matlab and Home Assistant users who use InfluxDB and Python.