Raspberry Pi Projects: 2016

วันอังคารที่ 6 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2559

5 Inch HDMI LCD Display for Raspberry Pi

5 Inch HDMI LCD Display for Raspberry Pi with Touch Screen

Features:

Resolution: 800 x 480 px

Screen Type: Resistive screen

With backlight control switch

Working Voltage/Current: DC 5V / 2A

It's suitable for Raspberry pi series; and also support banana pi, pcduino or Cubieboard etc.( but the touch function is unavailable)

You can donw offical firmware and drivers from us to use it.

And you can use integrated firmware to use it.(the firmware with driver, is very easy. )

Package included:

1 x LCD module(with install screws)

1 x HDMI connector

1 x Touch pen

Setup for Full Screen

This model has 800 x 480 pixel resolution.
You need to some setup for set full screen display.

Edit file /boot/config.txt

uncomment the following line

hdmi_force_hotplug=1

uncomment and add the following line.

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=1
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 800 480 60 6 0 0 0

Setup Touch Screen

Download Driver http://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/4/4b/LCD-show-161112.tar.gz

then copy this driver to raspberry pi use WinSCP tools.

Use Command

$ tar xzvf LCD-show-161112.tar.gz

$ cd LCD-show

$ ./LCD5-show

Option Virtual Keyboard

Reference

http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/5inch_HDMI_LCD

http://www.electrodragon.com/w/RPI_LCD

My Website

http://softpowergroup.net/

email : info@softpowergroup.net Tel .081-6452400

Google+ https://plus.google.com/+SoftpowergroupNetThailand/

My Blog about Android and Arduino IoT

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 4 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2559

Raspberry Pi Smart Home Automation with Home Assistant

In the last article we know about OpenHAB Raspberry Pi Open Source smart home. In this blog we will know about Home Assistant Open Source smart home.

What is Home Assistant?

Home Assistant is Open Source Software for smart home or home automation systems.

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3.
Track and control all devices at home and automate control.

Home Assistant can install on many platforms such as Windows, Linux ,Mac OSX and embedded platforms such as Raspberry Pi , BeagleBone Black , UDOO , Cubietruck so you can install in to Raspberry Pi. ( Raspberry pi is popular and low cost then we us Raspberry pi3 board)

Current Version: 0.33.4
Released: November 23, 2016

System Diagram

Hardware

You will need :

Raspberry Pi3 Board
SD card (8GB or more) we use 16 GB
Power supply
Ethernet or WiFi Connection

Software

Raspberry Pi OS
Raspbian Jessie – at the time of writing I have used version Sep 2016 which can be download from here – Raspbian Jessie

RASPBIAN JESSIE WITH PIXEL
Image with PIXEL desktop based on Debian Jessie
Version:September 2016
Release date:2016-09-23
Kernel version:4.4

Raspberry Pi Tools
For Windows User
PuTTY is SSH tools for Remote Command line. Download moreinfo
WinSCP for remote edit and transfer files. Download moreinfo

for Linux or MAC os
use terminal for remote command line. ( without installing additional software )
fugu ssh or Filezilla

How to Install Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi

There’s three options to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi.

Manual installation.
Following this guide doing each step manually. This is highly recommended as a first installation since you get a good overview of the installation.

Hassbian image.
Basic installation with the same settings as following the manual installation guide. Some additional software is preinstalled to make installation quicker and easier. Installation uses homeassistant user.

All-in-One Installer.
Fabric based installation script that installs and compiles many of the things an advanced Home Assistant install is likely to need. Installation uses hass user.

We use All-In-One Installer method to install.
Because there is including support for MQTT with websockets, Z-Wave, and the Open-Zwave Control Panel.

The only requirement is that you have a Raspberry Pi with a fresh installation of Raspbian Jessie connected to your network.

Run the following command

$ wget -Nnv https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/fabric-home-assistant/master/hass_rpi_installer.sh && bash hass_rpi_installer.sh

VDO Install Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi

more info on Home Assistant
https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/installation-raspberry-pi/

My Website

http://softpowergroup.net/

email : info@softpowergroup.net Tel .081-6452400

Google+ https://plus.google.com/+SoftpowergroupNetThailand/

My Blog about Android and Arduino

Android Arduino Control Hardware

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 3 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2559

Raspberry Pi Smart Home with OpenHAB2

What is OpenHAB?

OpenHAB is Open Source Software for smart home or home automation systems.

Now Version is openHAB 2. ( Oct 2016 )

OpenHAB 2 is based on the Eclipse SmartHome framework and is fully written in Java.
OpenHAB can install on many platforms such as Windows, Linux ,Mac OSX and embedded platforms such as Raspberry Pi , BeagleBone Black , UDOO , Cubietruck so you can install in to Raspberry Pi. ( Raspberry pi is popular and low cost )

System Diagram

Hardware

You will need:

Raspberry Pi Board

SD card (8GB or more)

Power supply

Ethernet or WiFi Connection

Software

Raspberry Pi OS

Raspbian Jessie – at the time of writing I have used version Sep 2016 which can be download from here – Raspbian Jessie

RASPBIAN JESSIE WITH PIXEL
Image with PIXEL desktop based on Debian Jessie
Version:September 2016
Release date:2016-09-23
Kernel version:4.4

Raspberry Pi Tools
for Windows User
PuTTY is SSH tools for Remote Command line. Download moreinfo
WinSCP for remote edit and transfer files. Download moreinfo

for Linux or MAC os
use terminal for remote command line. ( without installing additional software )
fugu ssh or Filezilla

How to Install OpenHAB2

1.Update your Raspberry Pi first

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2.Install MQTT ( mosquitto ) on Raspberry Pi

First get the repository package signing key, import it into apt, and remove the key file after adding,

sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-repo.gpg.key

sudo apt-key add mosquitto-repo.gpg.key

sudo rm mosquitto-repo.gpg.key

Then make the mosquitto repository available to apt:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-jessie.list

sudo apt-get update

Now we can install the core packages (server & clients):

sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients

3.Package Repository Installation

Now is Beta Release

Add the openHAB 2 Beta repository to your systems apt sources list (will overwrite your existing openhab2.list):

echo 'deb http://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 testing main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab2.list

Additionally, you need to add the openHAB 2 Bintray repository key to your package manager:

wget -qO - 'https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=openhab' | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

4.Install add-ons

The offline distribution is full blown and comes with all add-ons

sudo apt-get install openhab2-offline

158 MB. take a time. Relax !

It take 1h 5min 2s ( Thailand only )

5.Start System Service

Start openHAB and register it to be automatically executed at system startup.

sudo systemctl start openhab2.service

sudo systemctl status openhab2.service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable openhab2.service

Open Web browser goto http://your raspberry pi ip address:8080

Now Install already.

Then your must config some file for set your smart home automation system.

see next article... How to config file.

Reference

My Website

http://softpowergroup.net/

email : info@softpowergroup.net Tel .081-6452400

Google+ https://plus.google.com/+SoftpowergroupNetThailand/

My Blog about Android and Arduino

Android Arduino Control Hardware

วันพุธที่ 2 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2559

Raspberry Pi MQTT Broker (Mosquitto)

What is Mosquitto?

Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 3.1 and 3.1.1. MQTT.

Broker , Publisher , Subscriber

How to Install?

Update your Raspberry pi First.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install mosquitto developer api library

sudo apt-get install libmosquitto-dev

Install mosquitto

sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients

How to Test?

After installation Mosquitto will be automatically started. To test, install the MQTT.FX software. ( Download ) After installation issue following command into terminal window where we left after mosquitto installation

mosquitto_sub -d -t hello/world

Now open MQTT.FX and click on setting. Then enter IP address of your Pi and port address 1883 (by default) ( see pics below ). Click apply and connect