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BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

You're reading from BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints Automate and control your home using the power of the BeagleBone Black with practical home automation projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783986026

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Home Automation

Author (1):

Rodolfo Giometti

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Dangerous Gas Sensors FREE CHAPTER

2. Ultrasonic Parking Assistant

3. Aquarium Monitor

4. Google Docs Weather Station

5. WhatsApp Laundry Room Monitor

6. Baby Room Sentinel

7. Facebook Plant Monitor

8. Intrusion Detection System

9. Twitter Access Control System with Smart Card and RFID

10. A Lights Manager with a TV Remote Controller

11. A Wireless Home Controller with Z-Wave

Index

The final test

Now, to test the prototype, I connected the wall plug with my printer (the power load) and powered the multi-sensor with a USB port of my PC (just to avoid using the batteries). Then, I started the zwmanager.py program as follows:

root@beaglebone:~# ./zwmanager.py -d -l /dev/ttyACM0
zwmanager.py[2732]: callbacks installed
zwmanager.py[2732]: Starting...
zwmanager.py[2732]: network is started: homeid e4056d54
zwmanager.py[2732]: use openzwave library   = 1.3.482
zwmanager.py[2732]: use python library      = 0.3.0b5
zwmanager.py[2732]: use ZWave library       = Static Controller version Z-Wave 3.79
zwmanager.py[2732]: network home id         = 0xe4056d54
zwmanager.py[2732]: controller node id      = 1
zwmanager.py[2732]: controller node version = 4
zwmanager.py[2732]: network is now ready
zwmanager.py[2732]: detecting the switch node...
zwmanager.py[2732]:  - device Switch(9) is off
zwmanager.py[2732]: Press CTRL+C to stop
zwmanager.py[2732]: Started HTTP server on port 8080...

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Authors (1)

Rodolfo Giometti

Rodolfo Giometti

Rodolfo Giometti is an engineer, IT specialist, GNU/Linux expert and software libre evangelist. He is the author of the books BeagleBone Essentials, BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints and GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming by Packt Publishing and maintainer of the LinuxPPS projects. He still actively contributes to the Linux source code with several patches and new device drivers for industrial applications devices. During his 20+ years of experience, he has worked on the x86, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC-based platforms. Now, he is the co-chief at HCE Engineering S.r.l., where he designs new hardware and software systems for the quick prototyping in industry environment, control automation, and remote monitoring.

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