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Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by silasb »

redsummer wrote: post #5

I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets) https://home-assistant.io https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314 https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4 I would…

I'm pretty much doing the exact same.

Home Assistant

Custom TX board to transmit to the Etekcity sockets

https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Wireless-Electrical-Househol...

Using Alexa to control those outlets via Home Assistant Emulated Hue component. Then I have a couple groups defined in Home Assistant for my living room lights, so I can say "Alexa, turn off living room lights" and it'll turn off my three outlets. I can also do "Alexa, turn off living room light one" to just turn off a particular light. One thing that I've noticed with Alexa and Home Assistant is that I have an outlet labeled "Xmas Light" and I can either say "Alexa, turn on Xmas Light" or "Alexa, turn on Christmas tree light" and it seems to discern between the two.

Overall I love this combo and is working pretty dang good.

Next goal is to use PIR sensors so when I go to the basement it'll automatically turn on the basement lights.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by silasb »

dnadler wrote: post #25

Cool! I'm doing something similar, but more from the data-analysis side of things for my condo's efficiency. I've been trying to keep a blog of my progress, if anyone is interested, though please forgive the poor grammar / stream-of-consciousness in the posts... I've been writing quickly to get caught up. https://dan-nadler.github.io/

Nice little blog you have.

I'll be doing some similar. Couple things that I'll likely do different is push to InflexDB host in my homelab and using Pandas to help me analysis data.

Keep up the good work, it's inspiring.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by MrGrundel »

dvh wrote: post #3

I'm gonna repost comment made by niftich half year ago because it's spot on: Internet of Things isn't about people hooking up jailbroken Kindles to one-way mirrors to show the weather. It's not about Ardunios and Raspberry Pis being used to collect some data, move some servos, and make a blog post about it. It's about big money to be made by introducing new monetization channels in places there were none before.

woah dude, fight the power, let's see if we can fit that on a cafepress shirt with a Che-style Stallman silhouette

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#34

Post by dnadler »

silasb wrote: post #32
dnadler wrote: post #25

Cool! I'm doing something similar, but more from the data-analysis side of things for my condo's efficiency. I've been trying to keep a blog of my progress, if anyone is interested, though please forgive the poor grammar / stream-of-consciousness in the posts... I've been writing quickly to get caught up. https://dan-nadler.github.io/

Nice little blog you have. I'll be doing some similar. Couple things that I'll likely do different is push to InflexDB host in my homelab and using Pandas to help me analysis data. Keep up the good work, it's inspiring.

Thanks! I'm using pandas as well, though haven't got too far into the quantitative analysis just yet.

I hadn't heard of InfluxDB before, looks interesting.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by notfreeyet »

0xfeba wrote: post #17
Raphmedia wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Big corporations are not responsible enough to do IOT. We all know what would happen. Tracking, analytics and ads.

So a bunch of small and medium companies with zero accountability are pushing out Baby Cameras, DVRs, etc. by the thousands that are all drafted into the next botnet shortly after purchase by their blissfully unaware owners.

Imagine if you were a spy agency...why wouldn't you sell networked devices on Amazon?

I would setup a number of companies to sell networked devices of all kinds at cost just to get my backdoors inside as many networks as possible.

Which is why we should all have our "IoT" devices behind an IoT device we trust. Haha.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

#36

Post by SEJeff »

redsummer wrote: post #5

I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets) https://home-assistant.io https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314 https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4 I would…

I literally clicked into the comments here to mention how awesome Home Assistant is at things exactly like this. Glad to see I am not the only happy user / occasional contributor!

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by SEJeff »

fit2rule wrote: post #14
redsummer wrote: post #5

I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets) https://home-assistant.io https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314 https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4 I would…

Why not distribute the image as a one-off rPi bootable?

That exists as one (of many) installation options:

https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/installation-raspb...

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

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Post by TheOneTrueKyle »

pjungwir wrote: post #24

This looks like a lot of fun! Using a RaspPi is really attractive to me because you can make everything interoperate, and nothing depends on some company's servers. I've done two Pi projects now that I keep meaning to blog about. One was a sprinkler control system. My old system was dying, and not very flexible, so I decided to run everything off a Pi. The tricky part was driving 13 sprinkler lines with 24V AC curren…

I run a script that takes a picture with an old Kinnect and pushes to dropbox. It is a dirty solution but it worked...until I ran out of space...
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