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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero Build revolutionary and incredibly useful home automation projects with the all-new Pi Zero Marco Schwartz BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI [ FM-1 ] Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero Copyright © 2016 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: October 2016 Production reference: 1241016 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78646-695-2 www.packtpub.com [ FM-2 ] Credits Author Project Coordinator Marco Schwartz Kinjal Bari Reviewer Proofreader Vasilis Tzivaras Safis Editing Commissioning Editor Indexer Kartikey Pandey Pratik Shirodkar Acquisition Editor Graphics Prachi Bisht Kirk D'Penha Content Development Editor Production Coordinator Trusha Shriyan Shantanu N Zagade Technical Editors Cover Work Nirant Carvalho Shantanu N. Zagade Naveenkumar Jain Copy Editors Safis Editing Sneha Singh [ FM-3 ] About the Author Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years of experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests gravitate around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing. [ FM-4 ] About the Reviewer Vasilis Tzivaras is a software developer and hardware engineer who lives in Ioannina, Greece. He is currently an undergraduate student of the department of computer science and engineering at Ioannina. Along with his studies, he is working on many projects relevant to robotics, such as drones, home automation, and smart home systems using Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. He is also enthusiastic about clean energy solutions and cultural innovation ideas. He has worked for the University Hospital of Ioannina as an assistant for various computer issues and has been a part of the support team of his CSE department for over a year. He has participated in IEEE UOI Student Branch and other big organizations, such as FOSSCOMM, with personal presentations for website designing, programming, Linux systems, and drones. He is the chair of IEEE University of Ioannina Student Branch and has proposed many projects and solutions to automate homes and many other life problems by reducing the time of everyday routines. In addition to this, he has come up with ideas to entertain kids with funny and magical projects using Arduino-like hardware and open source software. Many of the projects can be found on his GitHub account under the name of BillyTziv. Apart from Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero and Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook, he has also published a book named Building a Quadcopter with Arduino. He has also worked on another book Programming in C, which is not yet published. In addition to this, he has written for blogs, forums, guides, and small chapters, explaining and sharing his knowledge of computers, networks, and programming. 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Why Subscribe? • Fully searchable across every book published by Packt • Copy and paste, print, and bookmark content • On demand and accessible via a web browser [ FM-6 ] Table of Contents Preface v Chapter 1: Configuring Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board 1 Introducing the Raspberry Pi Zero board 1 Required components for the Zero board 3 Assembling the different components 8 Installing Raspbian 9 Configuring the board for remote access 10 Installing Node.js 14 Summary 15 Chapter 2: Measure Data Using Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board 17 Hardware and software requirements 18 Hardware configuration 18 Software configuration 20 Reading data from the sensor 21 Storing sensor data 22 Accessing the data remotely 24 Plotting the stored data 26 Summary 29 Chapter 3: Building a Smart Home Thermostat 31 Hardware and software requirements 31 Hardware configuration 33 Testing individual components 34 Building the thermostat 37 Controlling the thermostat remotely 41 Summary 46 [ i ] Table of Contents Chapter 4: Controlling Appliances from the Raspberry Pi Zero 47 Hardware and software requirements 47 Controlling LEDs 49 Controlling the speed of a DC motor 54 Controlling home appliances 58 Summary 63 Chapter 5: Making a Smart Plug with the Raspberry Pi Zero 65 Hardware and software requirements 66 Hardware configuration 67 Configuring the smart plug 71 Creating an interface for the smart plug 74 Logging your energy consumption over time 78 Summary 80 Chapter 6: Sending Notifications using Raspberry Pi Zero 81 Hardware and software requirements 81 Making a motion sensor that sends text messages 83 Sending temperature alerts through email 92 Receiving measurement SATA through push notifications 97 Summary 102 Chapter 7: Use the Raspberry Pi Zero to Build a Security System 103 Hardware and software requirements 103 Building a motion sensor with the Pi Zero 104 Making a simple alarm module 106 Building a wireless security camera 108 Creating a security system 114 Summary 120 Chapter 8: Monitor Your Home from the Cloud 121 Hardware and software requirements 121 Monitoring data from a cloud dashboard 122 Creating a cloud dashboard for your devices 130 Accessing your security camera from anywhere 134 Summary 138 Chapter 9: Control Appliances from Anywhere 139 Hardware and software requirements 139 Control a LED from anywhere in the world 140 Creating several lamps from the cloud 143 Make a motion-activated lamp using IFTTT 144 Build an automated cloud thermostat 152 [ ii ] Table of Contents Chapter 10: Building a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi Zero Boards 159 Hardware and software requirements 159 Building all the modules 160 Configuring the modules 163 Integrating the modules into a single interface 166 Automating your home 173 Accessing your home automation system from anywhere 174 Summary 175 Index 177 [ iii ]