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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By: Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.

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Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
Creating a Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror
Creating a Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror
What is the Raspberry Pi?
Moving on to the LXTerminal
The Magic Mirror
Summary
2
Automated Gardening System
Automated Gardening System
Items required for the project
Setting up gardening system code (reading humidity)
Connecting it all together
Summary
3
Integrating CheerLights into a Holiday Display
Integrating CheerLights into a Holiday Display
Items required for this project
Getting the CheerLights code set up
Connecting it all together
Programming the ESP8266 Huzzah for CheerLights
Summary
4
Erase Parking Headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi
Erase Parking Headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi
Introduction to smart parking systems
Sensor devices for smart parking
Machine vision systems
Logging spaces in a database
Amazon Web Services IoT
Integrating the system
Summary
5
Building Netflix's The Switch for the Living Room
Building Netflix's The Switch for the Living Room
Setting up the Particle Photon
Hardware and software requirements
The architecture of the home automation system
Reading IR signals
Programming the button
Assembling the electronics
Controlling smart lights
Sending notifications with IFTTT
Future ideas for projects
Summary
6
Lock Down with a Windows IoT Face Recognition Door System
Lock Down with a Windows IoT Face Recognition Door System
Getting started: Installing and configuring Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi 3
Installing Visual Studio
Creating a first example
Applications for the Internet of Things
The architecture of the security system
Future ideas
Summary

Integrating CheerLights into a Holiday Display

CheerLights is a project by Hans Charler that allows your lights to be controlled by Twitter tweets. Anytime somebody tweets to twitter to @CheerLights with a color, all the CheerLights around the world will change to that color. This section will help you brush up on your soldering skills, navigate portions of the ESP8266 breakout board, and encourage creative building of LEDs into a variety of items.

In this chapter, we will create a festive holiday display that is triggered by festive cheers sent to you by your friends.

We will discuss the following topics:

  • Items required for this project
  • Getting the CheerLights code set up
  • Connecting it all together
  • Programming the ESP8266 Huzzah for CheerLights
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