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Home automation with Raspberry Pi, Node and React

by deepsy on 6/30/17, 3:22 PM with 43 comments

  • by SEJeff on 6/30/17, 8:56 PM

    There is a really popular project (disclaimer: I'm an occasional contributor) that also has an excellent Raspberry Pi story named Home Assistant:

    https://home-assistant.io/

    https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant

    They also have a full Pi distro named Hassbian:

    https://home-assistant.io/docs/hassbian/

  • by paulbennett on 6/30/17, 6:25 PM

    I mentioned this on the previous HN topic, the way the heating temperature is being controlled doesn't look correct to me. In all the boilers I've used the dial the servo is turning adjusts the temperature of the water being sent through the heating loop (to a blower or radiators) - this is not the heating thermostat. Generally you set this once and don't need to adjust it again, the thermostat does the work of turning the boiler on and off depending on when heat is required.

    Similarly the dial above adjusts the domestic hot water temperature, while the system is running. Again, you rarely need to change it once its set to a temperature you are happy with.

    Maybe I'm not understanding how this boiler works?

  • by Animats on 6/30/17, 5:51 PM

    The total absence of fault detection and shutdown is kind of scary. Fortunately it doesn't have the authority to do anything important. The worst it can do is turn the heat all the way up, down, or off.

  • by oulipo on 6/30/17, 9:19 PM

    This is very cool! You can bind your Raspberry Pi and Node with Snips to add a 100% on-device Voice AI, take a look at our website at https://snips.ai, and we would love to feature what you build with our platform on the website!

  • by rhcom2 on 7/1/17, 2:40 AM

    Nice, time to buy some perfboard and ditch the breadboard so it stays together.

  • by pmarreck on 7/1/17, 12:47 AM

    Lost me at Javascript