Home automation / heimcontrol.js

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Awesome home automation with Raspberry PI and Arduino using Node.js, MongoDB, HTML5 and Websockets.

Responsive:

The responsive design allows you comfortable control of your home devices using your smartphone or tablet.

Everywhere:

Open your Raspberry PI to the world and access your home automation app from everywhere in the world.

Extendable:

An elaborated plugin system makes it easy to extend the application with your own plugins.

Features:

heimcontrol.js was created to gain experience in Node.js, MongoDB, Websockets and a lot of other great technologies that were used in the project. Take a look in the package.json for a full list of used open source projects. The project is in active development and a very early prototype, so use it at your own risk!

Hardware:

- Full access to the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi

- Communication with an attached Arduino

- Wake-on-LAN (not really hardware, but at least it wakes up hardware)

- Stream your webcam via socket.io

Software:

- Node.js, Socket.io, Expressjs, Requirejs

- HTML5, CSS3 and Websockets

- Jade templating

- Responsive design

Apps:

Heimdroid (Android Application): Heimdroid

Video:

Source: heimcontrol.js - Home automation in Node.js with Raspberry PI and Arduino

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