In the previous post, I outlined the Home Dashboard touchscreen for controlling lights, temperature/humidity, displaying Amazon Echo information, displaying who’s home (via bluetooth sniffing), and displaying what was being watched on DirecTv. As this dashboard is intended to be a sudo remote control for my home, I thought it made sense to be able to actually […]
After creating a desktop home automation dashboard and, later, a live stream “digital picture frame”, I got the idea to combine the two into an always-on control panel that condenses everything I care about into a single kiosk which can sit on my end table or nightstand. What it does It’s essentially a condensed UI of […]
As noted here, I’m using the the DirecTV SHEF API and a Raspberry Pi to poll my DirecTV receivers every minute and store what they’re doing into a MySQL database. After ~6 months of storing that data, I thought it’d be interesting to analyze some of it. After all, do I really watch enough HBO and Starz to […]
I don’t have a quality window view in my office building and found myself checking the local news’ weather cams throughout the day so I thought it’d be cool to have a live outdoor view streaming to my desk. Using a Pi 3, Pi Display, a case, and camera, I built a digital picture frame which […]
New Design The original design wasn’t “clean” feeling and didn’t function too well on mobile or even tablet displays. I changed that up a bit and the new design has a lot of transparent divs, bokeh background images, and some jquery to make actions a bit smoother. Wink Integration Improvements The initial integration of the […]
Purpose Let’s just get it out of the way now — there’s no true practical purpose or value in doing this. I took this on as an experiment and opportunity to learn something new. What is it? Using a Raspberry Pi, some sensors, and a lot of Googling with trial and error, I took my […]