How I ended up automating my curtains and shouting at my laptop We encounter automation every day and may not realise
summary
A home chat bot called Woodhouse runs on a Raspberry Pi and controls hacked Wi‑Fi plugs (telnet/openWRT) and a curtain opener built from a servo, string and a looped pulley; the curtain firmware is 75 lines on an ESP8266 using Mongoose OS and responds to open/close/status endpoints. Voice uses a snowboy hotword and the Google Speech API for recognition; festival does TTS. Lamps, reminders and curtains work reliably in daily use and further sensors and recipes are planned.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:12Traffic lights Automatic doors Motion sensing lights Automatic hand driers
- 1:32Heating Lighting Access control
- 2:24Build tooling Tests Infrastructure configuration
- 6:45It's quite easy to add your own abilities
related talks
27mHow I Ended Up Automating My Curtains And Shouting At My Laptop
31mCTRL+ALT+HOME: A Fantastic Exploration of Home Automation
49mUnbridled Home Automation, from Trash Bag to Wild Boar
34mVoice-Controlled Lights on a Raspberry Pi
27mHow I've been using JavaScript to automate my house
47mCreating a Connected Home
51mSmart home from scratch - a little C#, a little C++ and cheap Chinese electronics
28mFeeling Lonely? Just Chat with Your House!