/smarthome

Collection of python scripts and other code for home automation. Currently in progress, working on temperature sensing and heating/cooling controls.

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smarthome

Collection of python scripts and other code for home automation. Currently in progress, working on temperature sensing using a Tarts wireless IoT gateway and wireless temperature sensors. To use this, you'll need a Tarts wireless gateway (available at TartsSensors.com) connected to a computer via a serial port, and one or more Tarts sensors (currently only the temperature sensor is supported, but it would be easy to add others).

Platforms supported:

I've only tested it on Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspian, but the Python code is totally portable and should work on any platform that supports Python 2.7 and serial ports.

To use:

  • 1. Connect the Tarts wireless gateway to the computer via a serial port.
  • 2. Use a terminal program and the AT command set (see the Tarts documentation) to add your sensors to the gateway's network. (Eventually I will add the ability to manage sensors to the program, but I haven't gotten to that yet).
  • 3. Run the tartgateway.py script -- it will search all the available serial ports looking for a gateway. Once it finds the gateway, it will create a task in a background thread that continues to monitor the gateway and print out any data recieved from a sensor.
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    That's it! You can easily modify the SensorDataEvent() function to change what happens when a sensor reading is recieved.