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
| Product | Price | Where to buy |
|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi, model B+ | 32 EUR | element14.com |
| Power supply 1200mA for the Raspberry Pi B+ | 10 EUR | element14.com |
| Case for your Raspberry | 10 EUR | element14.com |
| micro D card min. 8 GB | 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 |
