[Lab] Home Automation

[Henri Kuschkowitz]

Hey Mahdi,

I came across this recently. Maybe it helps you getting inspired.


Cheers,
Henri 

On 2012-09-20, at 9:46 AM, Mahdi Yusuf wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone at the ModLab has played around with home automation. I have been playing around with this sort of thing for a long time, its really interesting now that things like the raspberry pi board are available at such a small size. 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of wifi switches and sensors that could be deployed around the house to control things like lights and lamps on the cheap that doesn't require a lot of installation and relativity cheap. I am hoping to build something small like a prototype and see where it goes from there. 
> 
> I would like to use the raspberry pi as the controller and have sensors connect to it over the wifi and potentially have something like an iPhone do the connecting. I have built servers like this before, I just looking for some information on hardware and what is possible.
> 
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> Mahdi Yusuf
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