How I Ended Up Automating My Curtains And Shouting At My Laptop
summary
A JavaScript home automation hub called Woodhouse runs on a Raspberry Pi and controls lamps, curtains, blinds and heating; cheap Chinese plugs are flashed with OpenWrt and broadcast presence every two minutes so the hub discovers them, and an ESP8266 with mongoose os drives servos for curtains and a 3D‑printed retrofit for vertical blinds. Heating uses a servo to turn a thermostat potentiometer and runs reliably over winter 2017; voice uses snowboy wakeword and Google Speech API (60 minutes free/month). Parts often work but blinds retrofit remains unfinished.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:52Content warnings Videos, animations, loud noises and flashing lights
- 2:16Because I'm lazy, automation is a good thing
- 2:29Traffic lights Automatic doors Motion sensing lights Automatic hand dryers Cash machines
- 3:00Heating Lighting Access control
- 3:40These can be hooked directly to a chat system or you can use a framework
- 12:46There's so much cool stuff for JavaScript and hardware
- 18:54This ran my heating over winter 2017
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