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Need ideas for home automation project
#23799424 - 11/03/16 11:29 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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A little over a month ago I started developing a home automation system written in python on my Raspberry Pi 3 that I got for this project. Things have been going pretty well with it, and I've implemented a decent bit of features.
It can do speech recognition, and has a fairly good word error rate, with this voice control I can initiate modules I've written to retrieve current weather information, summarize it and give the results to the user (I'm in the process of enabling said module to make clothing recommendations), control my smart home philip hue light bulbs, and translate voice to text to send SMS messages.
Not all of the modules are totally finish, however I'm now struggling with what else I can do with this setup I have and would love some recommendations.
If anyone would be interested I can share some code snippets.
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: deadwk]
#23799834 - 11/04/16 06:40 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I guess you are limited to public soap APIs?
You can do date and time, holidays, stock market.
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#23800348 - 11/04/16 11:05 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well Anything with a JSON API can use, however a lot of the stuff I've been looking at have python wrappers written by people in the python community.
Stock market sounds very cool!
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: deadwk]
#23801190 - 11/04/16 04:50 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Star Trek doors. Would require some mechanical engineering as well though...
You could try to hook up your thermostat to voice control, or maybe even weather+voice control. Lights as well.
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: Kryptos]
#23801775 - 11/04/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Kryptos said: Star Trek doors. Would require some mechanical engineering as well though...
You could try to hook up your thermostat to voice control, or maybe even weather+voice control. Lights as well.
Star Trek doors would be cool, but maybe not the easiest feat, however I think using Ardruino+Raspberry Pi you could get it done.
The thermostat is an interesting idea, a company called NEST makes a smart device that you connect to your thermostat, and they also offer an API to it, however it is quite expensive. Although perhaps I could rig something together using Ardruino and the Raspberry Pi to plug into the current thermostat system.
The weather+voice control I'm currently working on, but I need to fine tune it some more.
For Lights I built a quick little class to get the base functionality up, now to extend it I just have to write a function for the light group i want to manipulate.
I love the star trek idea that would be fantastic!
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: deadwk]
#23803381 - 11/05/16 01:13 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got the thermostat idea from that company. I figured the goal of your project was partly to DIY a bunch of current market smarthome ideas and link them together.
You could also try to do some kind of fridge integration, where you hook a touchscreen up on your fridge that allows you to easily maintain an updated inventory, then sync that to your phone. Automated grocery list.
Well, not entirely automated, but once they get RFID chips in everything, you could integrate an RFID scanner to make it completely automated.
Personally, I would also do an oven hookup. Use your phone to set the oven to preheat as you leave work, grab a marinated London Broil on the way, and pop it in the oven right when you get home.
Or maybe even leave something in the oven and set it so it's cooked as you get home.
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Re: Need ideas for home automation project [Re: Kryptos]
#23803674 - 11/05/16 03:14 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yea that's exactly my idea, there's already some products out there like home-assistant which take care of that but I figured it would be a lot more fun to build one my own, and I'd learn a lot about python in the process.
That's cool about the fridge idea, didn't really think of that.
RFID chips sounds like a good idea, I wonder if NFC chips in the mean time could be used.
The oven idea is awesome, nothing better than coming home to fresh cooked food
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