Home Automation
Home automation has been a fascination of mine since someone said a computer could control a thermostat. At the May meeting Tom Gerhard showed us several years’ worth of his home automation projects. I was disappointed when we ran out of time just as Tom was going to get into the bits and bytes of the code used in his Raspberry Pi projects. So this month I invited him back to do just that.
Tom is a former UNIX administrator so doing things from the command line is second nature for him. He runs his Raspberry Pi’s “headless” which means there is no screen or keyboard. Instead of sitting at the Pi, he uses SSH to connect over the network from the comfort of his Macintosh.
This month we also had a surprise guest. William Kommritz is a student at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) working on a Computer Science degree. He is our draft pick for the July meeting – topic to be determined.
Jim Scheef