Using a Raspberry Pi for home automation and monitoring.

1. Raspberry Pi
Home Monitor & Automation
Stephen Amor
21st
May 2015

2. Initial Tinkering
● Simple Boiler Monitor
● Webcams
● DDNS
● Motion
● PIR Sensor
● Emailing pictures
● The Lunch Box

3. Finally I have an idea
Inspiration from Made by Many

4. Is the Toilet Free

6. MySql

7. Starting from scratch
● Python
● Php
● Apache
● Jquery
● Ajax
● Dynamic Web Pages
● LAMP
● MySql
● Cron
● Interfacing to the Pi

8. Input / Output
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PIR detectors
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Door detectors
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Cameras
●
433Mhz Rx
●
Web Site
●
Doorbell
●
Lights
●
Power cut
●
(Electricity consumption)
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(Letterbox)
●
(Temperature)
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(Ultrasonic)
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(Bluetooth)
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(Smoke Alarms)
●
(Speech Recognition)
● Email
● SMS
● Phone
● 433Mhz Tx
● Web Site
● Twitter
● Telegram
● Cameras
● SSH (debug)
● (Audio)

9. False Alarms 1

10. False Alarms 2

11. Interfaces 1

12. Interfaces 2

13. 433Mhz Receiver

14. 433Mhz Transmitter

15. UI

16. Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam
● Demo UI
● Show off The Lunch Box
● Met a lot of people
● Took away some ideas

17. iDataTruck
You really where an inspiration. It was the first time I had seen something 'cobbled'
together and realised that a packed lunch box was fine to use!

18. Using the OS
● Cron Jobs
● Check Heartbeat
● Check Cameras
● Check 2G Dongle
● Turn off the sockets

19. Learning
● Hardwire the network connection
● Interfacing to the Pi
● NTP broadband/Pi bootup race
● Optimisation (CPU Utilisation)
● MySql indexing
● Interrupts not polling
● Javascript
● Hacking wireless detectors
● 433Mhz v Wired

20. To Do
● Fault Finding
● IDE
● Modularise
● OOP
● TDD
● Integrate the CHIP £6 computer

21. The Real Thing

22. Demo Board