Welcome!
This blog explores the journey to design and build a home control & automation system for our AV rig, central heating, power sockets and lighting.
The home control system uses a Raspberry Pi server to provide a super-intuitive control interface for smartphones and tablets.
The AV rig is built around a Panasonic full HD 3D Blu-ray home theater surround sound system, which puts out a great picture and pumping sound.
For more information about who I am and what I do feel free to take a look at my CV aljamieson.com/cv
A Brief Intro
This first entry describes the original impetus and main goals of the project and has a few screenshots from the mobile-web control system.
AV setup & RaspPi control
This follow up blog entry describes how the AV components are connected and gives an overview of the Raspberry Pi mobile-web control system.
Setting up the Raspberry Pi
A short list of steps to get the Raspberry Pi set up.
Raspberry Pi Python message-forwarder/proxy
The HTML/CSS/JS frontend on a smartphone sends requests to the Raspberry Pi, the python script on the Pi receives those requests and forwards them to the various AV componenets using a mix of RS232, UDP & TCP