The piMyHome Project

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Raspberry Pi B+

piMyHome is a fast web application for the Bticino/Legrand home automation system, running on a Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized and cheap mini computer platform. piMyHome is not a commercial project, it's completely open source and is available for free for anybody. Developers who wanna join us are very welcome.


Current Status

piMyHome ist still in development and not ready yet. First public release is expected in January 2015.

Features

  • a monitor daemon is fetching OWN messages from your Bticino gateway and stores the state of each device (light, shutter, heating etc) in a Redis value cache
  • an event daemon watches what's going on and launches a user-defined action when an event is raised. The action launched can be anything, not just limited to the bticino system.
  • a nice and responsive web multi-language frontend let you manage your home automation with any device such as iPhone, Android, Mac-PC, Windows-PC or XMBC
  • Access control for user and groups
  • Each user can have his own environment and favorites
  • Completely managed via browser, no programming skills needed

Hardware Requirements

Product Price Where to buy
Raspberry Pi, model B+ ~32 EUR element14.com
Power supply 1200mA for the Raspberry Pi B+ ~ 8 EUR element14.com
Case for your Raspberry ~ 8 EUR element14.com
micro SDcard (min. 8 GB, better 16 ore more) ~10 EUR element14.com
LAN-cable to connect to your router or gateway ~ 5 EUR element14.com

Open Source Software used in this project

Software Description Homepage
Rasbian OS Debian based Linux OS for Raspberry Pi raspberrypi.org
Python very powerful and easy to learn scripting language python.org
Django Cool and powerful framework for Python djangoproject.com
Redis Fast key value cache for dynamic data redis.io
uSGI Websocket service for immediate response in website uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org
SQLite Simple single-file database system for static data sqlite.org
nginx Fast http web server nginx.org