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    Home Automation With Raspberry Pi

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    This document discusses a home automation project using a Raspberry Pi, Node.js, and React. The author built various smaller projects with Arduino before creating a home automation system with Raspberry Pi. The project gained significant attention on GitHub and Hacker News after the author shared it online. The technology stack uses React Native for a phone app, a Node.js backend, and libraries like pi-blaster to control devices connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. Hardware includes lights, an AC unit, heating system controlled via relays and servos, and temperature sensors.

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    This document discusses a home automation project using a Raspberry Pi, Node.js, and React. The author built various smaller projects with Arduino before creating a home automation system with Raspberry Pi. The project gained significant attention on GitHub and Hacker News after the author shared it online. The technology stack uses React Native for a phone app, a Node.js backend, and libraries like pi-blaster to control devices connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. Hardware includes lights, an AC unit, heating system controlled via relays and servos, and temperature sensors.

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    This document discusses a home automation project using a Raspberry Pi, Node.js, and React. The author built various smaller projects with Arduino before creating a home automation system with Raspberry Pi. The project gained significant attention on GitHub and Hacker News after the author shared it online. The technology stack uses React Native for a phone app, a Node.js backend, and libraries like pi-blaster to control devices connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. Hardware includes lights, an AC unit, heating system controlled via relays and servos, and temperature sensors.

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    This document discusses a home automation project using a Raspberry Pi, Node.js, and React. The author built various smaller projects with Arduino before creating a home automation system with Raspberry Pi. The project gained significant attention on GitHub and Hacker News after the author shared it online. The technology stack uses React Native for a phone app, a Node.js backend, and libraries like pi-blaster to control devices connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. Hardware includes lights, an AC unit, heating system controlled via relays and servos, and temperature sensors.

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    Home automation with Raspberry

    Pi, Node and React


    J U N E 2 4 , 2 0 17
    R A S P B E R RY P I J AVA S C R I P T N O D E J S R E A C T H O M E
    A U T O M AT I O N H A R D WA R E

    Introduction
    Since a kid Ive been passionate about electronic and computers.
    Previously Ive done different smallr projects with arduino, like handbrake
    for my gaming steering wheel, custom LED tachometer for my car, voice
    controlled LEDs, flower watering system. Few months ago I bought
    Raspberry PI 3 and around all the IoT hype, I started automating my home.
    In the begining I didnt even thought about making it public, but in the end
    I uploaded the source to Github. After most of my to-do list was done, I
    posted a link from my github repo to my facebook wall and 2 times in
    reddit, then I went to sleep. When I woke up in morning, I already had
    about 100 github stars with over 50 upvotes on reddit and few of my
    friends gave really position feedback about it. By the end of the day the
    stars were over 300 and suddenly they started increasing on each refresh
    and few minutes later, one of my co-workers told me that my project is 3rd
    on the Hacker News homepage. When I woke up next morning there were
    over 2000 stars, I found many positive emails in my inbox and bunch of
    comments on every post. After that my project led github trending for 3
    sequential days. I basically couldnt believe what just happened and I
    didnt even intend to share my code in the begining. By the time I write
    this post my Github repository has over 2500 stars, 129 forks and over
    500 upvotes in the reddit posts combined.
    (video at bottom)

    The Technology Stack


    Since Im pretty familiar with javascript and its ecosystem I decided to
    create my own phone app via reactnative and connect it
    via websockets to NodeJS backend. Im using ImmutableJSs Records for
    consistency of the data structure and the performance of the mobile app.
    The data is transferred between the client and the server via JSON strings,
    which are converted back to Immutable records, when received on both
    sides. Ive separated the shared modules(between client and server) to a
    separate local npm packages - home-records and home-config. For GPIO
    controlling (pins of the raspberry) Ive used piblaster library, together
    with wiringPi. Good thing about pi-blaster is that it add hardware-like PWM
    support to any GPIO. Since I couldnt find codes for my AC, Ive recorded
    them by myself and added them to lirc config file. Duckdns (with 5 minute
    cron) is used as dynamic dns, because my IP address changes periodically
    and I wont have to recompile the whole app or change config each time.
    The server broadcasts the changes to all connected users in realtime. The
    phone app is located in /phone-app folder, the server is located in /server.
    Why dont you take a look?

    The Hardware
    RaspberryPi3 is the controlling unit. High-power devices, such as LED
    strips, are powered via external 12V5Apowersupply (shared ground with
    the PI). The AC is controlled via 950nm infrared LED. The heating system is
    wired via relay (on and off) and servo for the thermostat as I was avoid
    disassembling. Both white LED strip and the RGB strip are connected
    via IRLZ34N logical transistors to the PI. There is also IR receiver, just in
    case I want to record anything else. Temperature is measured via DS18B20
    temperature sensor.
    The wiring looks like:
    Software dependencies
    o Node & Npm
    o Pi-Blaster
    o WiringPi
    o Lirc

    Video

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