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homemade-smart-home

DIY smarthome
Expecting some kind of beta somewhere in 2014

Old readme

Now:
Early pre-pre-pre-prototype.
Arduino as node with temperature sensor. Raspberry Pi as base station with SQLite DB to store sensor values. Both have nRF24L01.

TODO:
Software side:

Web frontend for Pi (more than just one graph) - Probably switch to another framework stack too
Switch to another DB. SQLite isn't great for more than one concurrent query (table locking and stuff)

Hardware side:

ATMegas as nodes
Add more types of nodes, actuators and more different sensors

Organization side:

Rename repo (probably easier to make another one)
Add instructions on how to install all this to README file
Add description to project
Documentation
Trello board? Mind map?

Ideas:
Technical:

Write it on Go language? it can be hipster cool. Note to myself - look at https://github.com/ktoso/go-home-raspberry and https://github.com/davecheney/gpio . Binding with C - I won't have to rewrite nRF24L01 library - plausible. No dependencies for Pi. Sounds good, should research. Dave Cheney's GPIO should provide easier access directly to GPIO. Also: https://github.com/galaktor/gorf24

General:

Multiple room speakers
Microphones, speech detection (who we are kidding here?)
NFC/RFID reader to monitor who's home
light control with regards to day of the year, time, current weather and presence of habitants

Used libraries

github.com/stanleyseow/RF24 - for Arduino and Pi communication with nRF24L01.
Dalla Temperature Control and OneWire - for easy polling temperature from DS18B20 temperature sensor.

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