Home Automation... Software Advice

RE: Home Automation... Software Advice

Robert Peter Oakes — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:35:49 GMT

I would look at using something like Node-Red on the PI. it can host a web page usable for all mobile devices (Browser based) and will keep them all up to date with values.

If you want to share data then use MQTT (Mosquitto on the PI) server. this will allow all sorts of applications access common data easily

I have plenty of videos on my channel about using the RPI with Node-Red and MQTT for automation. ( thebreadboardca )

if you prefer text based posts then see my friends blog ( Peter Scargill )

or google Raspberry PI and Node-red to find loads of other resources

RE: Home Automation... Software Advice

adsicks — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:18:16 GMT

That is the architecture I am using -- a webserver on the Pi. The data is in XML and the android app just reads the XML from the server, parses it, and displays it to your liking. To write back I just use CGI. What I started with was simple texting. I have an email server on the Pi. Any texts that don't come from our phones get sent to /dev/null. Otherwise they are parsed for commands (e.g., a text message that says 'info'). The Pi responds with the info (Alarm: OK Now Playing: Back in Black -- AC/DC Uptime: 6 days 12 hours 43 minutes 12 seconds).....

RE: Home Automation... Software Advice

dougw — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:37:56 GMT

There are lots of android apps that allow an android device to take remote control of a pc and see the same data and video.