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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

By : Marco Schwartz
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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Plotting the stored data


In the final project of this chapter, we are going to learn how to plot the data that was measured by the Raspberry Pi Zero board. We are actually going to combine what we did in the other projects of this chapter and add the plotting part on top of that.

As the code is quite similar to what we have already seen, I will only highlight the main changes here. First, we need to define a route for the data:

app.get('/data', function (req, res) {

  db.find({}, function (err, docs) {

    res.json(docs); 

  });

});

This will make sure that, when it is queried on this route, the server will return all the measurements stored so far inside the database.

Then, to display the plot of all the measurements, we are going to use a JavaScript called HighCharts. You can find more information about HighCharts here:

http://www.highcharts.com/

We'll include it inside an HTML file that we will place inside a folder called public, so our app can access it. This file will basically import...