The project's logo (5 minutes in Photoshop)

This is the website and Rest API for my AutoHome project.

I started this project when I was 15 years old and for the first time actively realized that our magic remote controlled electrical outlets are actually remote controlled and therefore can also be controlled by any kind of radio transmitter. Without a bigger project in mind, my dad had given me a Raspberry PI 3 for my birthday a few months earlier. A few quick google searches later and I found what I looked for: A 433mHz transmitter for the RasPi and a pack of 120 breadboard wires.

• For the website

  • Composer
  • KLogger
  • The Philips Hue API

• For the app

  • The MapBox Maps API

• For the voice platform

  • Snips (an incredible, free Voice-Recognition and NLU platform)
  • Requests
  • JSON parsing library
  • MQTT Python library

This is a pretty simplified scheme of how I designed my project. The leftmost layer is the user's input, either via voice, through the app or on the website. The master server runs the website and the API on a Synology Diskstation. It also manages the MySQL database and the routine service.

Note: This is the first commit of the project description. More to come.