Yocto for Raspberry Pi

Summary

In this final chapter of the book, we repeated the techniques we learned throughout the book. This was done by creating a home automation project, which can wirelessly turn on and off lamps in your home with help from a Raspberry Pi and a web browser, using your smartphone as the remote, for example.

For our home automation project, we improved some of the examples used earlier in the book, such as the GPIO control binary and the Node.js examples. By evolving them, we revised how to modify existing recipes by appending them with new files or patching the old ones. The project also required you to revise how to create and integrate external layers. Further on, the chapter looked closer at some techniques and introduced you the usage of a ...