How I ended up automating my curtains and shouting at my laptop
summary
Woodhouse is a chat-based automation system running on a Raspberry Pi behind the TV, with modular plugins and interfaces and broadcasting discovery. It controls hacked Chinese smart plugs running OpenWRT, an esp8266 with Mongoose OS driving curtains via a servo, and a thermostat by 3D-printing a wheel to turn a potentiometer. Voice uses snowboy hotword detection plus Google Speech API (60 free minutes/month). Claims: ~75 lines of JavaScript to control curtains, loud servo noise but the hardware setup works reliably.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:34Content warnings Videos and loud noises
- 4:18Because I'm lazy, automation is a good thing
- 6:55In mid-2014 I started working on a chatbot
- 7:43It's modular and extensible
- 17:46nest
- 18:13Minimum temperature setting
- 20:36So that's the story so far
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