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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

Summary


In this chapter, we continued to explore the field of the Internet of Things and we used it to control our smart home remotely. We first saw how to control devices remotely, like simple LEDs and lamps. Then, we learned how to combine what we learned with IFTTT to create more complex projects, for example making a cloud thermostat.

You can of course improve what you learned in this chapter. For example, you can combine what you learned in this chapter and the previous chapter to create cloud dashboards from where you can both monitor your devices and control other devices remotely.

In the next chapter, we are going to use everything that we learned in this book to create a complete home automation system based on the Raspberry Pi Zero.