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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned all the basics about sending automated notifications from your Raspberry Pi. We learned, for example, how to send notifications via email, text messages, and push notifications. This is really important to build a smart home, as you want to be able to get alerts in real-time from what's going on inside your home and also receive regular reports about the current status of your home.

You can of course improve the projects of this chapter in many ways. It would be easy for example to have several Pi Zero boards in your home, each sending you alerts on your phone for example. You could give a name to each of the boards and include that name inside the alerts so you know which Pi sent the message.

In the next chapter, we are going to use everything we learned so far in the book to build a simple security system using the Raspberry Pi Zero board.