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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects: Bringing your home to life using Raspberry Pi 3, Arduino, and ESP8266

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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

Automated Gardening System

We all love having a nice garden in our house, whether it's a tiny herb garden in a pot, a kitchen garden in your backyard, or a bed of flowers to welcome guests at the entrance. However, plants are living things and they require constant care and if you forget about them long enough they wither away. If you are like me in any way, you might have the same problem of killing your plants when you missed watering them due to forgetfulness or when you left home for a vacation.

In this chapter, we will create an automated gardening system that keeps an eye on your plant health by monitoring the soil humidity levels and watering your plants whenever the soil humidity level goes too low. This system will avoid the pitfall of a schedule-based gardening system which might end up killing your plants by over-watering them on rainy days.

We will discuss the...

Items required for the project

The gardening system has three parts: the control system, the humidity sensor that measures the humidity content of the soil, and a separate irrigation mechanism that irrigates the plants as required. We will use low-power components for our system (other than the irrigation pump) so that we can run them 24/7 without worrying about energy costs and they will also give us the flexibility of powering our system with batteries.

Waterproof junction box

You probably have a garden outdoors. You might want to keep your outdoor electronics near your garden as well; it will help to have a junction box that protects your electronics from rain and similar acts of nature. You can use hot-melt glue or quick...

Setting up gardening system code (reading humidity)

In this section, we will set up the Arduino IDE and read humidity from the humidity sensor and print it at the Arduino serial port.

Setting up the Arduino IDE

The Arduino IDE is a free IDE provided by https://www.arduino.cc/ that makes it easy to write and deploy code on Arduino and Arduino-based boards like the Arduino Pro Mini. Before we start, you must install the Arduino IDE from the following link. You might have to select the correct version for your OS:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software

If you already have the Arduino IDE, make sure its version is higher than 1.6.4.

You will have to switch the Arduino IDE to your board type. These instructions are for the Arduino...

Connecting it all together

Now all that is left is for you is to put your connected electronics (5V power supply, the Arduino Pro mini, and the relay) in the junction box and stick them using a hot-melt glue gun.

You may also use the hot-melt glue to waterproof any other parts that may need waterproofing:

After placing the Arduino, relay, and the 5V power supply safely in the junction box, connect your drip irrigation system to the submersible pump and submerge the connected pump in your water reservoir. Place your drip irrigation system to directly water the roots of your plants and finally switch on the pump power supply.

Summary

This is it! You now have a fully automated gardening system. You can experiment with a few more things; for example, you may try connecting potentiometer knobs to seasonally adjust the desired soil moisture settings for your plants as needed!

For a more advanced gardening system, you may also try to hook up a soil acidity level sensor and have an additional setup to balance the soil pH levels as per your plant's requirements. Don't let your lack of a green thumb hold you back from getting a garden that your neighbor would be envious of!

In the next chapter, we will look at how to create a snazzy IoT blinky lights festival display using an open source project that lets the world collaborate to color your lights!

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Key benefits

  • Build exciting (six) end-to-end home automation projects with Raspberry Pi 3,
  • Seamlessly communicate and control your existing devices and build your own home automation system,
  • Automate tasks in your home through projects that are reliable and fun

Description

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.

Who is this book for?

This book is for all those who are excited about building home automation systems with Raspberry Pi 3. It's also for electronic hobbyists and developers with some knowledge of electronics and programming.

What you will learn

  • Integrate different embedded microcontrollers and development boards like Arduino, ESP8266, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3
  • Create your own magic mirror that lights up with useful information as you walk up to it
  • Create a system that intelligently decides when to water your garden and then goes ahead and waters it for you
  • Use the Wi-fi enabled Adafruit ESP8266 Huzzah to create your own networked festive display lights
  • Create a simple machine learning application and build a parking automation system using Raspberry Pi
  • Learn how to work with AWS cloud services and connect your home automation to the cloud
  • Learn how to work with Windows IoT in Raspberry Pi 3 and build your own Windows IoT Face Recognition door locking system

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Table of Contents

6 Chapters
Creating a Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Automated Gardening System Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integrating CheerLights into a Holiday Display Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Erase Parking Headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Netflix's The Switch for the Living Room Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Lock Down with a Windows IoT Face Recognition Door System Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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I think this book would have been great but it is unfortunately OUT DATED. I was able to work through the first project, but instructions provided did not match the most recent updates to the magic mirror. I went on to the second project which was the home automated garden watering. The arduino board that is required has been discontinued. I then decided to just jump to the IoT section to find that the particle board needed is also discontinued and will no longer be made available. So in all this is already an outdated book. I feel sorry for the author because he spend a lot of time for these projects but next time he needs to do a little future proofing!
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