Plays with the web.
I learned in early September that I would be stepping out of my coding cave and heading for Serbia for ten days. Finally I had a chance to prove to Ali that all the random home automation projects that I have been working on for the last year could actually be used and give the […]
Over the last 18ish days, I have been using the Kill-o-Watt tool to monitor the electricity consumption of the Pi running openzwave for home automation and EtherRain 8 for perfect sprinkler control. I am using apache2 and some cron jobs, but not much else is on the Raspberry Pi. I am not using a separate […]
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. […]
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 […]