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The release of the Raspberry Pi Zero has completely amazed the tech community. With the price, form factor, and being high on utility—the Raspberry Pi Zero is the perfect companion to support home automation projects and makes IoT even more accessible.
With this book, you will be able to create and program home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero board. The book will teach you how to build a thermostat that will automatically regulate the temperature in your home. Another important topic in home automation is controlling electrical appliances, and you will learn how to control LED Lights, lamps, and other electrical applications.
Moving on, we will build a smart energy meter that can measure the power of the appliance, and you’ll learn how to switch it on and off. You’ll also see how to build simple security system, composed of alarms, a security camera, and motion detectors. At the end, you will integrate everything what you learned so far into a more complex project to automate the key aspects of your home.
By the end, you will have deepened your knowledge of the Raspberry Pi Zero, and will know how to build autonomous home automation projects.
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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero
Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero
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First published: October 2016
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Credits
Author
Marco Schwartz
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Vasilis Tzivaras
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About the Author
Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
He has more than five years of experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests gravitate around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing.
He has several websites about Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware.
Marco has written another book on home automation and Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
About the Reviewer
Vasilis Tzivaras is a software developer and hardware engineer who lives in Ioannina, Greece. He is currently an undergraduate student of the department of computer science and engineering at Ioannina. Along with his studies, he is working on many projects relevant to robotics, such as drones, home automation, and smart home systems using Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. He is also enthusiastic about clean energy solutions and cultural innovation ideas.
He has worked for the University Hospital of Ioannina as an assistant for various computer issues and has been a part of the support team of his CSE department for over a year. He has participated in IEEE UOI Student Branch and other big organizations, such as FOSSCOMM, with personal presentations for website designing, programming, Linux systems, and drones.
He is the chair of IEEE University of Ioannina Student Branch and has proposed many projects and solutions to automate homes and many other life problems by reducing the time of everyday routines. In addition to this, he has come up with ideas to entertain kids with funny and magical projects using Arduino-like hardware and open source software. Many of the projects can be found on his GitHub account under the name of BillyTziv.
Apart from Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero and Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook, he has also published a book named Building a Quadcopter with Arduino. He has also worked on another book Programming in C, which is not yet published. In addition to this, he has written for blogs, forums, guides, and small chapters, explaining and sharing his knowledge of computers, networks, and programming.
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Preface
The Raspberry Pi is an amazing development platform that was introduced back in 2012, along with the release of the first board. However, due to its price, it was not convenient for people to use it for smart home applications, where you need to deploy several modules at different places of your home. Usually, people building smart homes with this board used it as a central hub.
However, in 2016 the Raspberry Pi foundation released the Zero board, which is a smaller and much cheaper version of the Raspberry Pi board, and this changed everything for the home automation field. Now, you can actually use several of these boards in a home automation system and enjoy all the power and flexibility of the Raspberry Pi for all your projects.
This is exactly what I will teach you to do in this book. You will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi Zero board in several home automation projects, in order for you to build a smart home that is really tailored to your needs.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Configuring Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board, teaches you how to get started with your Raspberry Pi Zero board and also install everything that you need to carry out all the projects that you will find in this book.
Chapter 2, Measure Data Using Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board, teaches you how to measure data from a sensor using the Raspberry Pi Zero board. You will also learn how to measure data from the sensor, store this data on the Pi, and plot it graphically.
Chapter 3, Building a Smart Home Thermostat, gets you right into the core topic of this book, that is, building your first home automation system. In this chapter, we will build a simple thermostat that will allow you to regulate the temperature in your home.
Chapter 4, Control Appliances from the Raspberry Pi Zero, shows you how to use the Raspberry Pi Zero board to easily control home appliances. As an example, we'll see how to control a DC motor and switch on/off appliances, such as lamps.
Chapter 5, Making a Smart Plug with the Raspberry Pi Zero, teaches you how to build your own version of a smart wireless plug that you can buy in a shop. We'll see how to build the same using the Raspberry Pi Zero board and how to customize it for your own needs.
Chapter 6, Sending Notifications using Raspberry Pi Zero, shows you how to send automated notifications from your Pi, for example to indicate that the temperature in your home is getting low. As examples, we'll see how to send text, email, and push notifications.
Chapter 7, Use the Raspberry Pi Zero to Build a Security System, shows you how to start integrating everything we saw so far in the book and build a security system using what we have learned so far. You'll, for example, learn how to transform your Raspberry Pi Zero board into a wireless security camera.
Chapter 8, Monitor Your Home from the Cloud, guides you through an amazing field: the Internet of Things. You will learn how to use the Internet of Things for your smart home and monitor it from anywhere in the world.
Chapter 9, Control Appliances from Anywhere, guides you into the field of the Internet of Things, this time by teaching you how to control home appliances from outside of your Wi-Fi network.
Chapter 10, Building a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi Zero Boards, uses everything you learned in the book to build a complete home automation system for your entire home.
What you need for this book
For this book, the main component you will need is, of course, a Raspberry Pi Zero board. In the first chapter of the book, I will show you how to completely configure the board, so you can use it for the projects of this book. We will use some basic components at the start, such as sensors, and then move on to using more complex components. For every project, I will of course guide you step-by-step into building the hardware part so that you are not left behind.
On the software side, it is good if you actually have some existing programming skills, especially in JavaScript and in the Node.js framework. However, I will explain all the parts of each software piece of this book; so even if you don't have good programming skills in JavaScript you will be able to follow along.
Who this book is for
This book is for all the people who want to automate their homes and make it smarter, while at the same time having complete control on what they are doing. If that's your case, you will learn everything there is to learn in this book, on how to use the amazing Raspberry Pi Zero board to automate your home.
This book is also for makers who have played in the past with other development boards, such as Arduino. If that's your case, you will learn how to use the power of the Raspberry Pi platform to build smart homes. You will also learn to create projects that can't easily be done with other platforms, such as creating a wireless security camera with the Pi Zero.
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