Chapter 8. Monitor Your Home from the Cloud

In this chapter, we are going to delve more into a very exciting topic related to building a smart home: the Internet of Things. Indeed, today most of the smart homes are connected to the Internet and allows the user the monitor her or his home, even when they are at the other end of the globe.

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to build the three projects that will allow you to monitor your home from a distance. First, we are simply going to add a sensor to our Raspberry Pi Zero and monitor the measurements from a cloud dashboard. After that, we are going to learn how to build our own cloud dashboard to monitor several sensors remotely. Finally, we'll learn how to monitor the live camera stream ...

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