Raspberry Pi Simple Home Automation - From Scratch

[maghix]

Hello,

I am looking for a way where I can create home automation software from scratch, mostly for coding practice. I looked online and there seems to be a lot of already-built software that offers what I need, however, I would really like to program this from scratch to work on my programming skills.

I have experience with Java, Python, and C. Can someone please point me towards a guide or library that I can use to start implementing this? My goal is to use the USB port to power a desk light-strip using my iPhone's Home application.

Thank you in advance!

[B.Goode]

Welcome to the Raspberry Pi forums.

Hello,

I am looking for a way where I can create home automation software from scratch, mostly for coding practice. I looked online and there seems to be a lot of already-built software that offers what I need, however, I would really like to program this from scratch to work on my programming skills.

I have experience with Java, Python, and C. Can someone please point me towards a guide or library that I can use to start implementing this? My goal is to use the USB port to power a desk light-strip using my iPhone's Home application.

Thank you in advance!

Not specifically about Home Automation, but this Raspberry Pi material about Physical Computing might give you a useful start at dealing with the inputs and outputs available on your RPi board - https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pro ... -computing

[neilgl]

Ah, that Apple Home app uses Apple Homekit Protocol, so take a look at that https://developer.apple.com/support/hom ... -protocol/. (Needs Apple id). Some others have used node.js and "homebridge" on the pi, but as you want to code from scratch, that might just be useful for testing/comparison purposes, not to use it.

[pi-anazazi]

It's perl but speaks Apple trash (and dozens of other protocols): FHEM. Can be run on pi 1 to pi 4 (some use zeros for the start...)

[boyoh]

Hello,

I am looking for a way where I can create home automation software from scratch, mostly for coding practice. I looked online and there seems to be a lot of already-built software that offers what I need, however, I would really like to program this from scratch to work on my programming skills.

I have experience with Java, Python, and C. Can someone please point me towards a guide or library that I can use to start implementing this? My goal is to use the USB port to power a desk light-strip using my iPhone's Home application.

Thank you in advance!

From BoyOH
Yes learn all the coding you want , but don't ignore the hardware side , You can only writ code for something if you know how it works


My advice is learn coding in parallel with electronics.
Regards BoyOh.