Summary

Well, we've reached the end of our journey to build a fully functional and extensible home security system using the mighty Raspberry Pi mini-PC. In this final chapter, we put together all of the elements and concepts from the previous chapters to create a home security framework, both from a hardware and software perspective.

In particular, this chapter guided us toward building a modular framework for our home security system, implementing features that you would find in any commercially available system, and also things that you don't see out there. We walked through the complete control script, exploring its various sections and understanding how they fit into our system.

We also learned how to automatically start-up our home security system script when our Raspberry Pi boots up, and how data is shared between the Pi and the web-based control panel in real-time via the configuration file. Finally, we looked at how to prevent our SD card from burning out by creating a...