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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up software for home automation with the RPZ


In this recipe, we continue from the previous one and start setting up OpenHAB, a popular open source project for home automation. This recipe will take a while to complete, as the project is rather large and requires a lot of updates. Once it is finished, however, you will have your command center ready to go and ready to accept information from a variety of smart devices as well as sensor nodes, which we will look at in the next recipe.

Getting ready

It is quite easy to turn your Raspbian system into an OpenHABian one. If you followed the steps in the previous recipe, you are ready to go!

How to do it...

  1. If your Raspberry Pi Zero isn't connected to a monitor and keyboard, that's fine if you set up Raspbian to allow SSH connections. Log on to your Raspberry Pi Zero (however you prefer), and run the following command:

          sudo openhabian-config
    
  2. You'll get a configuration screen that should look familiar to your Raspberry Pi configuration...