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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

Building all the modules


In the first part of this chapter, we are going to see how to build the modules that we will use in our home automation system. As we have already seen how to build all these modules in the book, I will simply point to the correct chapters to build all the modules.

The first module you need to build is the sensor module, which is with the DHT11 sensor. To learn how to build this module, please refer to Chapter 2, Measure Data Using Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board, of the book.

This is what you should get at the end:

For the module that will be used to control appliances in your home, such as lamps, please refer to Chapter 3, Building a Smart Home Thermostat, to know how to assemble the module.

This is what you should get at the end:

For the motion sensor module, which is basically composed of a PIR motion sensor connected to the Pi, you can refer to Chapter 6, Sending Notifications using Raspberry Pi Zero. You will get the following outcome at the end:

Finally, for the camera...