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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

You're reading from   Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero Build revolutionary and incredibly useful home automation projects with the all-new Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466952
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Preface 1. Configuring Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board 2. Measure Data Using Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Smart Home Thermostat 4. Controlling Appliances fromthe Raspberry Pi Zero 5. Making a Smart Plug with the Raspberry Pi Zero 6. Sending Notifications using Raspberry Pi Zero 7. Use the Raspberry Pi Zero to Build a Security System 8. Monitor Your Home from the Cloud 9. Control Appliances from Anywhere 10. Building a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi Zero Boards Index

Automating your home

Now that we have our central server running and you can use it to control & monitor your home from a single interface, we can actually define some behaviors inside the server in order to create some automation within your smart home.

As an example, we are going to automatically switch on the lamp when motion is detected by the sensor. You can imagine the scenario in which the appliance control module is connected to a lamp in your hallway and that you want it to automatically switch on whenever a movement is detected by the motion sensor.

For that, here is the code you need to add into the server code:

setInterval(function() {

  // Check sensor
  request("http://" + motionSensorPi + "/digital/" + motionSensorPin,
    function (error, response, body) {

      // If motion was detected
      if (body.return_value == true) {

        request("http://" + lampPi + "/digital/" + lampPin + '/1');

      }
      else if {...
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