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Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition Unleash the power of the most popular microboards to build convenient, useful, and fun home automation projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399207
Length 148 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Home Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started – Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi and Arduino 3. Central Air and Heating Thermostat 4. Temperature Storage – Setting Up a Database to Store Your Results 5. Parcel Delivery Detector 6. Curtain Automation – Open and Close the Curtains Based on the Ambient Light 7. Water/Damp Detection – Check for Damp/Flooding in Sheds and Basements 8. Wrapping Up A. References Index

Setting up the SD card and installing Raspbian

Installing an operating system is a two-step process. This involves formatting the SD card to the FAT filesystem format, and copying and pasting the image to the card.

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a method used for recording which sectors of a disk files are stored in and which sectors are free to be written to. It has its origins in the 1970s, when Bill Gates and Marc McDonald developed it for use on floppy disks. Due to its robustness and simplicity, it is still found on SD cards today and is the format we will need in order to install Raspbian.

When you purchase an SD card, you might notice that it is already formatted to FAT, as this format is popular with devices such as digital cameras. Many manufacturers ship the card so that it is ready to go out of the box and no further formatting is required. However, we recommend formatting your card if you did not purchase the official SD card.

To format and copy the downloaded Raspbian image to...

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