Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi

✍ Scribed by Steven Goodwin (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

Smart Home Automation with Linux was already an excellent resource for home automation, and in this second edition, Steven Goodwin will show you how a house can be fully controlled by its occupants, all using open source software and even open source hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Appliance Control: Making Things Do Stuff....Pages 1-52
Appliance Hacking: Converting Existing Technology....Pages 53-86
Media Systems: Incorporating the TV and the HiFi....Pages 87-122
Home Is Home: The Physical Practicalities....Pages 123-152
Communication: Humans Talk. Computers Talk....Pages 153-188
Data Sources: Making Homes Smart....Pages 189-216
Control Hubs: Bringing It All Together....Pages 217-274
Raspberry Pi....Pages 275-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-304

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general