House automation

This will control some motor, light detector, a USB camera to automate the house.

But Why?

If you want a simple system all build already use: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos I did that because I was bored and I wanted to control more than just the camera.

Short setup checklist from blank SD Card:

Download/install Raspian
Update upgrade all package.
Install latest node with "n" or "nvm"
Add key to Github
Download repo
copy simpleAuth.sample.json simpleAuth.json / Edit it.
Install/setup motion
"Should work"

Flow

Motors: In the morning (light), Open the blind.

On a Schedule (easy to start)
On manual trigger later (via API)

Front of the house : (using movement detector to trigger) On movement in the front take a picture/Record a video

Door Camera + Led lighting: On Movement next to the door Take a picture/Video & Open the Led light / (Text picture ?).

Data management: When the info is save to a folder, synch the folder to S3 or GDrive or ??? If a Connection to Bluetooth deactivate the system or part of it. Make analysis on the file like:

OpenCV Face recon
Count the number of people passing by per day and match the face if possible (catalog).

Future / InProgess:

Server to save the important data
Server interface to show graph of different stats

Install on Pi.

Note: Remember this is an ARM V8 processor on Raspberry PI3-B, so node will install, but not the package to read the pin. From a fresh install of Pi I was able to make it run with:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
install node with what you like "nvm" or "n"
Git clone / npm install
Copy simpleAuth.sample.json to simpleAuth.json
Install & setup Motion: https://motion-project.github.io/ with the right output directory.
Setup/Configure AWS CLI with sudo (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html).
To make it run on ssh: $ nohup node bin/www &

Problem:

With distro of Ubuntu 16.04 At reboot I had a "U-Boot" loop. Fixed with: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/61342/raspberry-pi-3-ubuntu-16-04-server-upgrade-error. But now I use Raspian.

GPIO: (can be already included in distro)

I will use the Command line with:

git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd wiringPi
./build And using it with: gpio -v, gpio readall, gpio -g mode 2 out, gpio -g write 2 1 (see more at http://wiringpi.com/the-gpio-utility/) Benefit: I don't have to use sudo anymore. Problem: I don't have an event emitter I have to loop check.

Setup of Motion:

install motion: $ apt-get install motion Go into the config: /etc/motion/motion.conf Change the Path of the output to be the same as the AWS sync folder. My current cheep camera setting (lot of vegetation in the front):

threshold 3000
noise_level 64
framerate: 5
minimum_motion_frames 4
max_movie_time 8
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg1 -> For online video iframe.
target_dir $workdir/rpi_HouseAutomation/video
movie_filename %Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S

Design History:

Initial design was to use pi-gpui or rpi-gpio to control the GPIO pins, but that was harder than expected since it failed to work and also need SUDO to run and that is bad practice to run Node as sudo. So I ended-up using wiringPi as childProcess. Trying to use "fswebcam" to capture the frame, but I needed to discard the first few frames so the camera adjust the brightness. So a lot of time waisted between frames. So I decided to use "Motion" https://motion-project.github.io/ and it was way simpler to setup and use. (so now I dont need my motion sensor anymore, except for the door).

cesine/rpi_HouseAutomation