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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 a motion sensor with the Pi Zero


The first module that we are going to assemble in this chapter is the motion sensor module. These modules will be deployed in key parts of your home, to detect any intruder in your home.

The hardware configuration for this part will actually be very simple. First, connect the VCC pin of the motion sensor to a 3.3V pin of the Raspberry Pi. Then, connect the GND pin of the sensor to one GND pin of the Pi. Finally, connect the OUT pin of the motion sensor to the GPIO17 pin of the Raspberry Pi. You can refer to the previous chapters to find out about pin mapping of the Raspberry Pi Zero board.

This is the final result:

Let's now see how to configure this module so we can access it remotely through WiFi. This application will be based on the aREST framework again, which we already saw in the previous chapters of the book.

Here is the complete code for this part:

// Modules
var express = require('express');

// Express app
var app = express();

// aREST
var...