#Home Automation

A small side project of mine to automate as much as possible in my house that I'm using with a Raspberry Pi

Goals

• When I get home:
  • Switch PC on
  • Switch off torrents
  • Switch on lights if dark
  • Play some music
• Send emails when:
  • The external IP address changes of my torrent server
  • The ethernet port goes down and up again

What's working so far

• Switching on PC
• Play music
• Torrents (Using transmission-daemon and transmission-remote | Click here for the configuration)
  • Switch on at 23h00
  • Switch off at 15h00
• Send emails when:
  • The external IP address changes of my torrent server
  • The ethernet port goes down and up again

Folder structure

• networks
  • Everything that involves the well being of my network
• network_pc
  • Everything that involves scripts which interact with other PC's in my house
• filesystem [not of use yet]
  • General mounting of file systems
• torrents
  • Everything regarding my torrent downloads

Misc

Setup Raspi

Setup the raspberry pi to send emails

Check here or visit

http://www.sbprojects.com/projects/raspberrypi/exim4.php

or for a very lightweight configuration check here

Crontab configs

I have some scripts run via crontab

#*/1 * * * * python /root/scripts/network_pc/phone.py &> /dev/null
*/30 * * * * /root/scripts/network/check_ip &> /dev/null
0 6 * * * /root/scripts/network_pc/pc_off_night &> /dev/null
0 23 * * * /root/scripts/torrents/switch_on &> /dev/null
0 15 * * * /root/scripts/torrents/switch_off &> /dev/null