Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi shows you how to automate your lights, curtains, music, and more, and control everything via a laptop or mobile phone. You'll learn how to use Linux, including Linux on Raspberry Pi, to control appliances and everything from kettles to curtains, including how to hack game consoles and even incorporate LEGO Mindstorms into your smart home schemes. You ll discover the practicalities on wiring a house in terms of both and power and networking, along with the selection and placement of servers. There are also explanations on handling communication to (and from) your computer with speech, SMS, email, and web. Finally, you ll see how your automated appliances can collaborate to become a smart home. Read more...
Content: Appliance Control: Making Things Do Stuff --
Appliance Hacking: Converting Existing Technology --
Media Systems: Incorporating the TV and the HiFi --
Home Is Home: The Physical Practicalities --
Communication: Humans Talk. Computers Talk --
Data Sources: Making Homes Smart --
Control Hubs: Bringing It All Together --
Raspberry Pi.
Abstract: Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi shows you how to automate your lights, curtains, music, and more, and control everything via a laptop or mobile phone. You'll learn how to use Linux, including Linux on Raspberry Pi, to control appliances and everything from kettles to curtains, including how to hack game consoles and even incorporate LEGO Mindstorms into your smart home schemes. You ll discover the practicalities on wiring a house in terms of both and power and networking, along with the selection and placement of servers. There are also explanations on handling communication to (and from) your computer with speech, SMS, email, and web. Finally, you ll see how your automated appliances can collaborate to become a smart home
