Building a home automation dashboard

After you have finished this book, you might want to build lots of cool projects that could include LED stripes or a motion-sensor-controlled light, or you might add a motor to your curtains to open or close them based on the light intensity or the time. These would be really cool projects, but now imagine that you're sitting on the couch and want to watch a movie, but the sun is too bright and did not exceed the threshold to start the motor that controls the curtains. What can we do in such a situation? Do we stand up and close the curtains manually, or do we open a Wasm app on our smartphone or tablet in order to control the motor for the curtains by just pressing a button on an app? You might also want to check if the LED stripe in the living room is still turned on, but you do not want to get out of bed to check. In that case, it would be great to have a dashboard that informs you about its status. In this section, we are going to build...