The piMyHome Project

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piMyHome is a fast web application for the Bticino/Legrand home automation system, running on a Raspberry Pi, a very cheap (less than 50 EUR) mini computer platform.

Features

  • monitoring OWN messages from a Bticino gateway and store them in a Redis value cache

Requirements

  • Raspberry Pi, model A, B or B+ (~32.00 EUR)
  • Power supply for the Raspberry (~10.00 EUR)
  • SD card or Micro SD card for the Raspberry Pi (~20.00 EUR)
  • LAN-cable to connect to your router or gateway (~5.00 EUR
  • Rasbpian OS (0.00 EUR)

Open Source Software used in this project

Software Description Homepage
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 A websocket service for immediate response in website uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org
SQLite A simple database system for static data sqlite.org
nginx A fast http web server nginx.org