Morning Mood
Marc Staller
The Raspberry Pi GPIO interface offers the perfect starting point from which to control devices, such as turning lights on and off, starting the coffee machine in the morning, or turning on the TV and playing your favorite movies at scheduled times.
Home automation is a natural application for the Raspberry Pi. Imagine setting a desired wake-up time from the browser of your smartphone. Then, instead of listening to the nerve-wracking sounds coming from an alarm clock the next morning, the light in the room turns on, the smell of coffee wafts in from the kitchen, and the TV plays motivational videos.
In this article, I show you how to set up this paradise inside your own four walls.
Parts
Before you begin, you need to gather the hardware components listed in the "Hardware" box. To create your morning assistant, you should set up a web server that can host the applications to be used in controlling the components you connect.
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