Home automation lets you control daily activities such as changing the temperature, opening the garage door, or dimming the lights of your house using microprocessors. BeagleBone is a low-cost, high-expansion, hardware-hacker-focused BeagleBoard. It is small and comes with the high-performance ARM capabilities you expect from a BeagleBoard. BeagleBone takes full-featured Linux to places it has never gone before.

What you will learn from this book

Learn how to interface the BeagleBone board with various hardware components and environmental sensors

Set up the programming logic necessary to enable standalone periodic tasks and their management

Discover network programming over TCP/IP sockets, and enable encrypted access over the Internet

Program an Android application that can interface with your home automation server

Implement a framework to send any type of data, such as images captured from a camera, to your smartphone

About the Author

Juha Lumme is an engineer with over 10 years' experience in the telecommunications field in various roles. He has been developing platform software for mobile phones and also working on the telecommunication networks side. Embedded systems are his passion, and a hobby he is working on in free time as well.

He is passionate about Linux and open source software in general. The open hardware movement in the recent years is also close to his heart, and he hopes we can all soon hack and build our dreams in a world free of patent abuse.

When not working on his computer, he loves traveling and riding mountain roads on his motorbike around Kanto prefecture in Japan.

Features

Author : Juha Lumme

Binding : Paperback

Country Origin : India

Edition : 1

Publication Date : 2014

Publisher : Shroff/Packt Publishing

Dimensions

Dimensions (W x H x D): 23x18x2