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Dark night, wind howling blah blah. Honestly it is not an alarm system, it is a joke mash up to keep people away from my front door. Works pretty simply and is a great example of how all these hardware devices can communicate easily together. Step 1. Motion is triggered by the Foscam camera. […]
My original goal was to have one interface for all the home automation tools that I am trying to put together; however, after installing OptiRain Open there really is no point. The software works great and since I already had apache and php on my pi, I just needed to add OptiRain Open. The software […]
So this is not really about the Raspberry Pi, but will be. The goal is to have the Pi powering all the home automation tools possible but in all honesty a Pi is not needed for the awesome that is EtherRain. An EtherRain 8 lets you water your lawn without having to move away from […]
UPDATE: I upload my hacked Z-wave controller code to: https://github.com/tagroup/open-zwave-tcp-socket-server-and-client Decided to try some easy home automation with my Raspberry Pi using the Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2, GE Wireless Outdoor Module (45604), open-zwave interface, and the openzwave-control-panel. The goal was simple. I wanted to turn a light on and off without leaving my chair or moving […]
Setup was fairly easy but there were a few sticky spots. You should have make, build-essentials and whatever else already on your PI. Downloaded source and source for wxWidgets Downloaded ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/ (pkcs#11 .h files) export PKCS11_INC=/home/pi/crypto make WX_ROOT=/home/pi/wx/ wxbuild make WXSTATIC=1 When using small 200 mb encrypted file containers, everything seems zippy. [email protected]:/mnt/bkdrive/Alison# truecrypt -m=nokernelcrypto encrypttest.tc /mnt/tc […]