Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

Summary

In this chapter, we continued to explore the field of the Internet of Things and we used it to control our smart home remotely. We first saw how to control devices remotely, like simple LEDs and lamps. Then, we learned how to combine what we learned with IFTTT to create more complex projects, for example making a cloud thermostat.

You can of course improve what you learned in this chapter. For example, you can combine what you learned in this chapter and the previous chapter to create cloud dashboards from where you can both monitor your devices and control other devices remotely.

In the next chapter, we are going to use everything that we learned in this book to create a complete home automation system based on the Raspberry Pi Zero.