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Design and build custom devices that work through your phone to
control your home remotely
Setting up a "smart home" can be costly, intimidating, and invasive.
This hands-on guide presents you with an accessible and cheap way to do
it yourself using free software that will enable your home and your
mobile devices to communicate. A DIY 'Smart Home' Guide: Tools for
Automating Your Home Monitoring and Security Using Arduino, ESP8266,
and Android contains step-by-step plans for easy-to-build projects that
work through your phone to control your home environment remotely.
All the projects in the book are geared towards helping you create a
"smart home," with fun and useful examples such as wireless temperature
and humidity monitors, automated lights, sensors that can trigger alarms
in the event of broken glass, fire, window entry, or water heater
leakage, and much more! All projects can be accomplished with no
previous knowledge; for those with some background in C/C++ or JAVA, the
projects can be customized.
- All projects use easy, free, flexible, open-source platforms such as
Arduino
- Focuses projects on real-world remote control activations for
protecting the home
- Written by a "smart home" expert and experienced author