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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

Receiving measurement SATA through push notifications


In the last project of this chapter, we'll learn how to use the project we built in the previous section to actually not send you alerts, but just keep you updated about the current temperature and humidity measured by Pi.

Here however, we are going to use something new to alert you: push notifications. These notifications will immediately show up on your phone if you have the right app installed.

As the app, we'll use Pushover that is available for iOS and Android. You can install it from your App Store and find more information at the following URL:

https://ifttt.com/

Then, add the Pushover channel inside IFTTT:

Now, create a new recipe and choose the Maker channel again as the trigger:

I used data as the trigger:

Then, select Pushover as the action channel and enter the following message:

Here, we'll use the variables Value1 and Value2 to display the temperature and humidity inside the message. We'll see in a moment how to actually send that...