BeagleBone Home Automation

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An easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples to help transform your house into a standalone home automation solution. If you are looking for ways to create a highly capable home automation system that is easily extendable and highly configurable, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of electronics and programming in Python and/or Java languages will be helpful, but not mandatory.

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Full title :BeagleBone Home Automation.

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Packt Publishing
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1306270057, 9781306270052, 1783285745, 9781783285747
oclc:ocn867076072
LC Classification:TJ223.P76
Dewey Decimal:643.6

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Initial Setup; The hardware required; The software required; Preparing the host machine; Windows; Mac OS X; Linux; Starting the target board for the first time; Logging in to the system; Operating Linux from the console; Basic filesystem operations; File permissions; Running a Hello World program on BeagleBone; Summary; Chapter 2: Input and Output; Hardware interfaces; General-Purpose Input/Output pins (GPIOs); On-board LEDs; GPIO library for Python

Setting the proper timeExternal output; External hardware input; Pulse width modulator; Summary; Chapter 3: Creating the Client and Server Applications; Sockets; Example socket application; Echo server; Echo client; Summary; Chapter 4: Extending Server Capabilities; Environmental sensors; Light sensor; Temperature sensor; Advanced server; Defining our Beagle protocol; The new server code; The new client code; Transistors; Summary; Chapter 5: Implementing Periodic Tasks; Implementing a save/load framework; Retrieving and changing permanent settings; The client side; The server side

Periodic tasks on the server…