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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)

Building Netflix's The Switch for the Living Room

On the one day off that we want to rest and be relaxed at home, everything in our house needs to be controlled without standing up or moving something else with our hands. In this case, we are in our living room or any place at home and everything is going on and moving manually, but sometimes, people like to be comfortable, for example, turning on the lights, watering the plants in the garden, opening the garage door, if a person is in front of the door house, we want to know who is ringing the doorbell, send or calling for a service, or sending an SMS to open the door; just with one click, we can do many actions, save our lives, help people have a better mood.

In this chapter, we will build a smart button that can do things automatically for a home automation system. This can be used at home to control our electrical devices...