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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.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we built an interesting project for a home automation system that can be implemented at home. In the first part, we talked about the Particle Photon, how to set up the board, and some important characteristics of Particle Photon.

Then, we connected the board to its framework and looked at an example. After that, we created a project to have control over electrical devices or other devices at home. We created a smart button that can send notifications and have control over the things at home. The first part of the project was to decode the signals that we sent to the TV; for that, we used an Arduino UNO to decode. For the last part, we made a proposal to use, with the same architecture of the system, some devices such as ESP8266 to send and control our devices in a local network.

In the next chapter, we will build an interesting project using a smart camera...