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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

Accessing your security camera from anywhere


Inside the last section of this chapter, we are going to revisit a project we built in the last chapter: the wireless security camera. Here, we are going to learn how to visualize the live video stream coming from a camera from anywhere in the world.

Assembling this project is really simple; you simply need to plug the USB camera to the Raspberry Pi using the USB hub as you also need to plug the Wi-Fi dongle. This is the final result:

Now, we are again going to use the MJPEG-streamer software to create a live video stream from the camera. If you haven't installed it yet, you can check the last chapter of the book to learn how to install it.

Then, go inside the folder where the software is installed, and type:

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so" -o "./output_http.so -w ./www"

This will immediately start the streaming software on your Raspberry Pi:

Now, I want you to open another terminal window or tab, as we will need to run another software while the...