Figure 11-13. Wiring a PIR motion detector Open an editor (nano or IDLE) and paste in the following code. As with all the program examples in this book, you can also download the program from the Code section of the Raspberry Pi Cookbook website, where itis called pir_py. import RPi.cPIO as cPIO Anpert tine PIO. setmode(GPI0.8cH) P10. setup(18, GPTO.IN) while True: input_state - GPIO.input(18) if input_state == True: print( Hotton Detected") time. sleep(1) ‘The program simply prints out the state of the GPIO input 18. $ sudo python pir.py Motion Detected Motion Detected Discussion Once triggered, the output of the PIR sensor will stay high for a little while. You can adjust this using one of the trimpots on its circuit board. See Also You could combine this recipe with Recipe 7.15 to send an email when an intruder is detected, 11.8, Detecting Movement | 285 www .it-ebaoks.info