How to Smart Home · A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things by Kyas, Othmar -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

1 Read Me

1.1 Who is this Book for? 1.2 What You Will NOT Find 1.3 Take no Risks 1.4 Formatting Rules

2 The Big Picture

2.1 The Potential for Energy Conservation 2.2. Safety Management and Assistive Domotics 2.3 Changing the World (a bit) to the Better Bibliography

3 Key Concepts

3.1 Devices under Control 3.2 Sensors and Actuators 3.3 Control Networks 3.4 Controller 3.5 Remote Control Devices 3.6 Market Trends 3.7 Smart Homes for the Masses: Google, Apple, Samsung and more … 3.8 A Future Proof Smart Home Architecture 3.9 Where do we go from here? Bibliography

4 The Project

4.1 Overview 4.2 Equipment and Prerequisites

5 The Home Control Centre: Open Remote

5.1 OpenRemote Overview 5.2 OpenRemote Controller Installation 5.3 Installation under Mac OS X 5.4 Installation under Windows 7, 8 and Windows XP 5.5 OpenRemote Designer 5.6 The “Hello World” App

6 A Pretty Smart Sensor: Internet Weather

6.1 OpenRemote Control via HTTP: Retrieving Internet Weather Data 6.2 Designing the App Layout

7 Smartphone Based Presence Detection

7.1 Building a DHCP – MAC Address Monitor Function 7.2 Creating a Shell Script for Presence Detection 7.3 Shell What? 7.4 The Presence Detection Script under OS X / Linux 7.5 Testing it Right - Best Practice for Script Writing 7.6 Building the Script 7.7 A Log File for Presence Detection 7.8 Testing the Script 7.9 The Presence Detection Script under Windows 7 & 8 7.10 Testing it Right - Best Practice for Script Writing 7.11 Building the Script 7.12 Log File for Presence Detection 7.13 Testing the Script 7.14 Controlling Presence Detection via Smartphone

8 Integration of Multimedia: iTunes Remote

8.1 Script Based iTunes Control in OS X 8.2 Script Based iTunes Control on Windows XP/7/8 8.3 Creating the iTunes Smartphone Remote 8.4 Talk to Me

9 A Little AI: Drools Rules

9.1 Wake me up Early if it Rains: iAlarm 9.2 Controlling iAlarm via Smartphone 9.3 The iAlarm Rule Script 9.4 Coming Home

10 More iDevices

10.1 Denon / Marantz Audio System Control 10.2 Device Control Using Z-Wave Bibliography

11 Industry Grade Home Infrastructure Control: KNX

11.1 What is KNX? 11.2 How does KNX Work? 11.3 The KNX Software Infrastructure: ETS 11.4 Which Operating Systems does ETS Support? 11.5 ETS on a Mac 11.6 Other KNX.org Software Tools 11.7 ETS5 Installation 11.8 Importing Vendor Catalogs 11.9 ETS5 Infrastructure Configuration 11.10 ETS5: Adding the Building Infrastructure 11.11 ETS5: Configuring the KNX Elements 11.12. ETS5: Connecting Infrastructure to Controls

12 KNX Control via OpenRemote Designer

12.1 Background Pictures for the Smartphone and Tablet App 12.2 Configure KNX Based Heating Mode Control 12.3 Smartphone Based Heating Control 12.4 Drools Based Heating Automation

13 Remote Smarthome Control

13.1 Configuring a Dynamic DNS Service 13.2 Configuring a VPN

14 Cold Start: Launch Automation

14.1 Windows Task Scheduler 14.2 OS X launchd

15 Troubleshooting and Testing

15.1 Preventive Maintenance 15.2 OpenRemote Heartbeat and Watchdog

16 … we proudly present: Reporting

16.1 A Drools Reporting Rule

17 Appendix

17.1 OpenRemote Professional Designer

Bibliography