Take control of your home and your data with the power of the Go programming language. Build extraordinary and powerful home automation solutions that can compete with much more expensive closed-loop commercial alternatives, using the same tools found in enterprise computing environments high-end industry.
The book will show how you can use cheap Raspberry Pi hardware and great Go-based open source software tools like Prometheus and Grafana to create your own personal data center. Using the step-by-step examples in the book, build useful home automation projects that you can use as blueprints for your own custom projects.
With just a Raspberry Pi and the Go programming language, build your own personal data center to orchestrate and manage home automation systems, leveraging the same powerful software used by large enterprises. use. The projects in this book are easy to assemble, requiring no soldering or electrical engineering expertise.
Build a temperature monitor that can send alerts whenever a defined threshold is exceeded and report temperature readings on a series graph over time. Change the light color to visually indicate the current outdoor weather status. Create a networked motion detector to trigger an alert whenever motion is detected, such as a door opening or closing, pets wandering around or deliveries or visitors arriving on your front porch. Let these triggers initiate an even more complex Go-based automation chain. Integrate a small, high-resolution camera into your bird feeder to take stunning close-up photos whenever a bird lands at the feeder and broadcast them to your Discord server where your family and friends will be. can view these wildlife photos in real time.
Control your home with hardware you configure and manage it with Go code you create and modify any time you want to enhance your home automation capabilities.
What you need:
Readers should be familiar with the Go programming language and have a working knowledge of Linux. Free, open source libraries and utilities based on Go are available for download from the Internet. Readers will also need a working Raspberry Pi 3+ or higher and a Pi Pico W microcontroller. Some other low-cost electronic parts (touch sensor, motion detector) are also needed for some projects . A Philips Hue base lighting system was also needed for the weather monitoring project.
Index:
- ✓ Introduction.
- ✓ Part I: Setup:
- ✓ Chapter 1. Getting started.
- ✓ Chapter 2. Building a REST API Server.
- ✓ Chapter 3. Deploying your Personal Data Hub.
- ✓ Part II: Projects:
- ✓ Chapter 4. Networking a Temperature Monitor.
- ✓ Chapter 5. Checking the door (Garage).
- ✓ Chapter 6. Lighting Weather.
- ✓ Chapter 7. Bird Watching.
- ✓ Chapter 8. Go Build.