Smart home from scratch - a little C#, a little C++ and a whole lot of cheap Chinese electronics

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A practical walkthrough of building a DIY smart home using inexpensive Chinese hardware combined with C# and C++ code. Covers end-to-end design choices for hardware and software, rapid low-budget prototyping, and common pitfalls and considerations encountered while assembling and debugging an IoT system.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:08from $2 microcontrollers to cloud servers
3. 18:47State machine
4. 21:42Event Driven
5. 30:59The 1st Switch Installation
6. 32:10The 1st Controller Installation (1)
7. 38:44The 2nd Switch Installation
8. 41:45System components and parts list
9. 42:26Parts list - Home server
10. 42:55Parts list - Touch Screen Controller
11. 43:31Parts list - Smart Switch

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