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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

Hardware and software requirements


As always, we are going to start with the list of required hardware and software components for the project.

In this chapter, we are going to use at least three Raspberry Pi Zero boards: for a motion sensor, an alarm module, and a camera module. Of course, you can perfectly use more of each module in your security system.

For the motion sensor module, I will use a simple PIR motion sensor.

Then, for the alarm module, I will be using a small buzzer, as well as an LED and a 330 Ohm resistor.

For the camera module, I will use a Logitech C270 webcam. Here, any camera compatible with the UVC protocol would work, which is the case for most of the cameras sold these days.

Finally, you will need the usual breadboard and jumper wires.

This is the list of components that you will need for this chapter, not including the Raspberry Pi Zero: