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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

Making a simple alarm module


In the second part of this chapter, we are going to learn how to build an alarm module for our security system. You will usually have one of those modules in your home that will flash light and emit sound in case motion is detected. Of course, you can perfectly connect it to a real siren instead of a buzzer to have a loud sound in case any motion is detected.

To assemble this module, first place the LED in series with the 330 Ohm resistor on the breadboard, with the longest pin of the LED in contact with the resistor. Also place the buzzer on the breadboard.

Then, connect the other side of the resistor to GPIO14 of the Pi and the other part of the LED to one GND pin of the Pi.

For the buzzer, connect the pin marked as + on the buzzer to GPIO15 and the other pin of the buzzer to one GND pin of the Pi.

This is the final result:

To configure this module, we will again use the aREST library, so the code will be very similar to the one we used in the previous section:

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