Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Apress
Book cover

Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi

  • Book
  • © 2013

Overview

Authors:
  1. Steven Goodwin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Automate your home with Linux, Raspberry Pi, and even a bit of Arduino.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Appliance Control: Making Things Do Stuff

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 1-52

  3. Appliance Hacking: Converting Existing Technology

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 53-86

  4. Media Systems: Incorporating the TV and the HiFi

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 87-122

  5. Home Is Home: The Physical Practicalities

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 123-152

  6. Communication: Humans Talk. Computers Talk

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 153-188

  7. Data Sources: Making Homes Smart

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 189-216

  8. Control Hubs: Bringing It All Together

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 217-274

  9. Raspberry Pi

    • Steven Goodwin
    Pages 275-296

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 297-304
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

About this book

Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi shows you how to automate your lights, curtains, music, and more, and control everything via a laptop or mobile phone.

You'll learn how to use Linux, including Linux on Raspberry Pi, to control appliances and everything from kettles to curtains, including how to hack game consoles and even incorporate LEGO Mindstorms into your smart home schemes.

You’ll discover the practicalities on wiring a house in terms of both and power and networking, along with the selection and placement of servers. There are also explanations on handling communication to (and from) your computer with speech, SMS, email, and web. Finally, you’ll see how your automated appliances can collaborate to become a smart home.

Smart Home Automation with Linux was already an excellent resource for home automation, and in this second edition, Steven Goodwin will show you how a house can be fully controlled by its occupants, all using open source software and even open source hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

About the author

Steven Goodwin has been involved in science and technology from an early age, and built his first synthesizer while still in his teens. Since then, his projects have been varied. He has sold over a million computer games, written two books, built robots, and automated a house that can be controlled from the Internet. He has spoken at many conferences, including NotCon '04 and the BBC Backstage OpenTech event.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation