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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Getting the CheerLights code set up

In this section, we will set up our CheerLights code and deploy it to the ESP8266 Huzzah.

Set up the Arduino IDE

The Arduino IDE is a free IDE provided by https://www.arduino.cc/ that makes it easy to write and deploy code on Arduino and Arduino-based boards like the ESP8266. It's written in Java and it supports Windows, GNU/LINUX, and macOS. Before we start, you must install the Arduino IDE from the following link. You might have to select the correct version for your OS.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software

If you already have the Arduino IDE, make sure its version is higher than 1.6.4.

By default, the Arduino IDE doesn’t support the ESP8266. The Arduino IDE needs to be...