Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer

Book Description

In Programming Your Home, technology enthusiast Mike Riley walks you through a variety of custom home automation projects, ranging from a phone application that alerts you to package deliveries at your front door to an electronic guard dog that will prevent unwanted visitors.

Open locked doors using your smartphone. Assemble a bird feeder that posts Twitter tweets to tell you when the birds are feeding or when bird seed runs low. Have your home speak to you when you receive email or tell you about important events such as the arrival of visitors, and much more!

You’ll learn how to use Android smartphones, Arduinos, X10 controllers and a wide array of sensors, servos, programming languages, web frameworks and mobile SDKs. Programming Your Home is written for smartphone programmers, web developers, technology tinkerers, and anyone who enjoys building cutting-edge, Do-It-Yourself electronic projects.

This book will give you the inspiration and understanding to construct amazing automation capabilities that will transform your residence into the smartest home in your neighborhood!

What You Need:

To get the most out of Programming Your Home, you should have some familiarity with the Arduino hardware platform along with a passion for tinkering. You should enjoy innovative thinking and learning exercises as well as have some practical application development experience. The projects use a variety of hardware components including sensors and actuators, mobile devices, and wireless radios, and we’ll even tell you where you can get them.

Top Five Home Automation Tips

• Start Small. While it would be cool for your home to behave like a scene out of a science fiction movie, building such an elaborate configuration will take a lot of time, effort and money. Try a couple small, easy projects first to get an idea of what to expect, how it behaves, and what needs to be modified to work optimally for your needs.

• Search YouTube. Creating a nifty home automation project is a badge of honor, worthy of showing off to the world. And what better place to show off these accomplishments in action. Searching combined keywords like “Arduino,” “Home,” and “Automation” will return a number of short videos demonstrating a variety of inspiring ideas.

• Ask an Engineer. DIY electronics vendor Adafruit, along with a number of other DIY sites like Sparkfun and Element14, have experienced electronics engineers on staff and/or in the product forums ready to help. In the case of Adafruit, they even have a weekly live broadcast that gives customers a chance to freely ask Adafruit founder Limor ‘LadyAda’ Fried for her expert technical advice.

• Be Safe. While most home automation projects don’t call upon radical amounts of electrical current to operate, electricity can still be very dangerous if not handled with respect and understanding the risks. When in doubt, call upon the expertise of an experienced electrician before manipulating anything having to do with home electrical wiring.

• Have Fun! In addition to capturing the obvious benefits of home automation aspects that will make your life easier, the other, larger reward is the actual building of the project itself. This is especially meaningful if you build it with your family, so that each time your project activates, you have the satisfaction of recalling the joy and wonder on the faces of your loved ones witnessing the working assembly for the first time.

Table of Contents

Part I—Preparations
1. Getting Started
2. Requirements

Part II—Projects
3. Water Level Notifier
4. Electric Guard Dog
5. Tweeting Bird Feeder
6. Package Delivery Detector
7. Web-Enabled Light Switch
8. Curtain Automation
9. Android Door Lock
10. Giving Your Home a Voice

Part III—Predictions
11. Future Designs
12. More Project Ideas

Part IV—Appendices
A1. Installing Arduino Libraries
A2. Bibliography

中文：

书名：Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer

In 规划你的家，技术发烧友Mike Riley带你完成了各种定制的家庭自动化项目，从在你的前门提醒你包裹递送的电话应用程序，到可以防止不受欢迎的访客的电子看门狗。

用你的智能手机打开锁着的门。准备一个鸟喂食器，它会在Twitter上发布推文，告诉你鸟什么时候在吃东西，什么时候鸟的种子要少了。当你收到电子邮件或告诉你来访者的到来等重要事件时，让你的家人告诉你！

你将学习如何使用Android智能手机、Arduinos、X10控制器以及各种传感器、伺服系统、编程语言、网络框架和移动SDK。 规划你的家 是为智能手机程序员、网络开发人员、技术修补人员和任何喜欢构建尖端、自己动手的电子项目的人编写的。

这本书将给你灵感和理解，以构建惊人的自动化功能，将您的住宅转变为您所在社区最智能的家！

您需要的：

最大限度地利用 规划你的家，您应该对Arduino硬件平台有一定的了解，并对修补工作充满热情。你应该喜欢创新思维和学习练习，并有一些实际的应用程序开发经验。这些项目使用了各种硬件组件，包括传感器和执行器、移动设备和无线无线电，我们甚至会告诉您在哪里可以买到它们。

五大家庭自动化小贴士

• 从小事做起。 虽然让你的家表现得像科幻电影中的场景一样很酷，但建造这样一个精心设计的配置需要花费大量的时间、精力和金钱。首先尝试几个小的、简单的项目，以了解预期会发生什么，它的行为如何，以及需要修改哪些内容才能以最佳方式满足您的需求。

• Search YouTube. 打造精美的家居自动化项目是一枚荣誉勋章，值得向世界炫耀。还有什么地方更适合在行动中展示这些成就呢？搜索组合关键字，如&#8220；Arduino，&#8221；&#8220；Home，&#8221；和&#8220；Automation&#8221；将返回一些展示各种鼓舞人心的想法的短视频。

• Ask an Engineer. DIY电子产品供应商Adafruit以及其他一些DIY网站，如SparkFun和Element14，在员工和/或产品论坛上都有经验丰富的电子工程师随时准备提供帮助。就Adafruit而言，他们甚至有每周一次的现场直播，让顾客有机会自由地向Adafruit创始人利莫·弗莱德请教她的专业技术建议。

• 注意安全。 虽然大多数家庭自动化项目不需要大量的电流来运行，但如果不尊重和理解风险，电力仍然可能是非常危险的。如果有疑问，在操作与家庭电线有关的任何东西之前，请咨询经验丰富的电工的专业知识。

• 玩得开心! 除了捕捉到家庭自动化方面的明显好处，让你的生活变得更容易之外，另一个更大的回报是项目本身的实际建设。如果你和家人一起建造它，这样每次你的项目启动，你就有一种回忆起joy的满足感，并在亲人第一次见证工作大会的脸上惊叹，这尤其有意义。

Table of Contents

第一部分–准备工作
1. Getting Started
2.要求

Part II—Projects
3. Water Level Notifier
4.电动护卫犬
5.推特上的喂鸟器
6.包裹递送检测器
7.启用网络的电灯开关
8.窗帘自动化
9.安卓门锁
10.让你的家发出声音

第三部分–预测
11. Future Designs
12.更多项目创意

第四部分–附录
A1.安装Arduino库
A2. Bibliography