The piMyHome Project

Raspberry Pi B+

piMyHome is a fast web application for the Bticino/Legrand home automation system, running on a Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized and cheap mini computer platform. piMyHome is not a commercial project, it's completely open source and free for anybody. Developers who want to join us are very welcome.

Current Status

piMyHome is still in early development and not ready yet. Our first public release is expected in March 2015.

Features

• A monitor daemon is fetching OWN messages from your Bticino gateway and stores the state of each device (light, shutter, heating etc.) in a Redis value cache.
• An event daemon watches what's going on and launches a user-defined action when an event is triggered. The action launched can be anything, not just limited to the bticino system.
• A nice and responsive web multi-language frontend to manage your home automation with any device capable of browsing html pages, such as a smartphone, tablet, desktop PC, or XMBC (TV).
• Access control for users and groups.
• Each user can have his own environment and favorites.
• Completely managed via browser, no programming skills required.

Hardware Requirements

Product	Price	Where to buy
Raspberry Pi, model B+	~32 EUR	element14.com
Power supply 1200mA for the Raspberry Pi B+	~ 8 EUR	element14.com
Case for your Raspberry	~ 8 EUR	element14.com
micro SDcard (min. 8 GB, better 16 ore more)	~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
Raspbian OS	Debian based Linux OS for Raspberry Pi	raspbian.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
uWSGI	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