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Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

I've always liked chiming clocks, so I made a pseudo grandfather clock with an RPi Zero W, a $1 I2C servo controller, and a $3 mini digital servo that strikes a long chime tube scavenged from an old doorbell[1] - ntpd means it's a lot more accurate than a pendulum clock, and cron keeps it from ringing in the middle of the night.

1: https://youtu.be/mfOEBCp74UU

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by iamdbtoo »

balloob wrote: post #29

Use Home Assistant to integrate anything in your house. Make voice assistants respond to your commands. Write advanced automations to help make your life easier. Use our Hass.io OS build to setup Google Assistant easily on your Pi. Need a USB microphone and speakers connected to the Pi and you'll get the full Google Assistant experience. https://home-assistant.io (disclaimer: I'm the founder)

Just discovered Home Assistant yesterday and I'm really looking forward to diving into it.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by johnboiles »

johnboiles wrote: post #103

I had one on my sailboat making all the boat's sensor data available over wifi. It also let me control the Raymarine AutoHelm from my iPhone. https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-firmware https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-hardware https://github.com/johnboiles/nmeaproxy

Just sold the sailboat though ️

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by johnboiles »

balloob wrote: post #29

Use Home Assistant to integrate anything in your house. Make voice assistants respond to your commands. Write advanced automations to help make your life easier. Use our Hass.io OS build to setup Google Assistant easily on your Pi. Need a USB microphone and speakers connected to the Pi and you'll get the full Google Assistant experience. https://home-assistant.io (disclaimer: I'm the founder)

I've been really digging home-assistant. Just got it set up a few weeks ago. Ended up buying $300 of zwave switches soon after

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by arcaster »

johnboiles wrote: post #103

I had one on my sailboat making all the boat's sensor data available over wifi. It also let me control the Raymarine AutoHelm from my iPhone. https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-firmware https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-hardware https://github.com/johnboiles/nmeaproxy

Damn, now I have a legitimate reason to buy a sailboat ;)

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by arcaster »

tsyd wrote: post #25

Although not strictly a Raspberry Pi project, I have a couple C.H.I.P. boards[1] scattered throughout my apartment collecting temperature and humidity readings (using a HIH8120 sensor[2]) and feeding it to my Raspberry Pi which runs InfluxDB and Chronograf[3] to store and display a simple dashboard. The end result looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cIrhSUq.png [1]: https://getchip.com/ [2]: https://sensing.honeywell…

I love the C.H.I.P board, seems like they'd have better market penetration if their name wasn't "CHIP" though. I feel like the Particle IOT line has suffered a similarly hindrence?

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Post by kzisme »

abright wrote: post #76
kzisme wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What language did you end up using to access the sensors? I've been ~hoping~ to use Go to access the GPIO pins, but haven't had much success - any suggestions?

I've used https://github.com/stianeikeland/go-rpio to control my garage doors and this library https://github.com/kidoman/embd has some more advanced features which I've used for a thermostat solution.

Thanks! I'll take a look! I have an AstroHat on my Pi and I think it should be straight forward-ish using one of these.
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