The Internet of Things is a very hot subject today. Using automation within the home to ease daily tasks has gained more importance than ever. The Raspberry Pi, due to its size, price, and the possibilities to easily connect it to other electronics equipment, is a very good choice for making small home automation projects. This chapter will guide you through a small home automation project that will let you set up a remote lighting control system using the Raspberry Pi and then control it remotely with the help of a smartphone. The project will require skills learned in earlier chapters, so this chapter will also act as a summary of all you have learned throughout the book.
The chapter will start with an introduction to our home automation project and the material that is required for it. Then, it will go into the integration of Yocto with our project. This section of the chapter will explain how to set up up the image used by the...