Overview
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Build a Raspberry Pi home monitoring system in this DIY electronics project. Learn to monitor your house remotely, detect motion, and even turn lights on and off.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Overview of the alarm project
- Using the exercise files
- Select a power supply
- Select a USB Wi-Fi adapter
- Select a Raspberry Pi camera
- Select a camera mount or enclosure
- Select a Pi Cobbler
- Select a breadboard
- Select an enclosure for the Pi
- Select a motion detector
- Optional accessories
- Overview of remote access with Weaved
- Configure VNC, SSH, and WebIOPi services for Weaved
- Patch WebIOPi for Raspberry Pi B+ and 2
- Explore Weaved and test our services
- Send SMS messages with an online service
- Connect the Pi cam to the Raspberry Pi unit
- Enable support for the Pi cam
- Take pictures from the command line with raspistill
- Explore a script that automates picture taking
- Access the camera's pictures remotely with an FTP client
- Configuring video streaming with the Pi cam
- Connect the Pi to the development board and test GPIO
- Control the breadboard using WebIOPi
- Connect the relay and motion detector
- Explore a basic alarm system written in Python
- Further automate your home with Z-Wave and OpenRemote
- Set up Wi-Fi instead of using Ethernet
- Considerations for mounting and securing your alarm system
- Next steps
