FruitHAP (Fruit Home Automation Platform)

A Home Automation Platform designed to run on a Raspberry Pi with extensibility in mind.

Features in this version

Backend

Controllers

• RfxController, support for the RFXtrx433E 433 MHz transceiver
• ImageController, support for retrieving images from a camera (IP or USB)

Sensor types

• Klik-aan-klik-uit: KakuButton, KakuSwitch
• Other: Camera, IP or USB
• Other: FruitTempSensor, this supports my custom made Arduino based temperature sensor (see here )
• Aggregated sensors: Button+Camera, Switch+Camera, you can use this sensor type for example to send a image from a camera when a switch is flipped or a button is pressed

Plugins

Core Plugins

• EventTriggerPlugin: Updates of sensor states are sent to a specified topic in the message queue when a sensor update occurs (e.g. switch is flipped, new temperature reading is available).
• AlertNotificationPlugin: A configurable alert message is sent to a specified topic in the message when a sensor event occurs (e.g. button is pressed externally, switch is flipped externally)
• WebPlugin: The plugin that makes the control and reading of sensors/actuators available through a REST API

Example plugins

• ThermostatPlugin: An example plugin to control two switches depending on the input of a temperature sensor

Client programs

• FruitHapNotifier: An Android application which features a dashboard part to control the sensors and an alert part that notifies the user of alerts. This uses the message queue and the REST API
• SensorTest: An QT C++ application that also is an example of an dashboard and control part with the extra feature of face detection with OpenCV (OpenCV installation needed) WARNING: MAY NOT WORK CORRECTLY SINCE THIS WAS ONLY A DEMO This isn't part of the core installation package as below, but you can still look into it to learn more about the system.

Installation of the basic backend

Needed stuff (NB this is the BASIC setup, after this you have still to configure your hardware and sensors to get it completely working)

• A Raspberry Pi (i use a Model 2 B, it should also work on other model Bs, but i haven't tested it thouroughly)
• A Raspbian distribution based on Jessie (to be found here )
• A network connection for the Raspberry PI (either wired or wireless, I use a wireless dongle from Edimax)
• Latest version of Ansible on the computer from which you do the install
• Latest version of the FruitHAP distribution (see here )

Installation:

• Install the Raspbian distribution on your Raspberry PI and enable SSH access.

• On the computer with Ansible modify the /etc/ansible/hosts in such a way that the IP address or hostname of your RPi is listed. For example :

  [raspberrys] 192.168.1.67

• Unzip the FruitHAP distribution on a computer where Ansible is installed on.

• Go to the directory in which you unzipped FruitHAP

• run ./deploy.sh <ip address of RPi>

• Ansible will now take care of installing the backend system on your Pi and will start the FruitHAP service afterwards

• Now you can configure your sensors and plugins etc.

Starting/stopping the FruitHAP service:

The FruitHAP service is controlled by the excellent Supervisor daemon.

To start/stop/restart:

• SSH into your RPi
• Run 'sudo supervisorctl start|stop|restart fruithap
• Or: in a webbrowser go to http://<RPI-ip>:9001 (username: supervisor, password supervisor)

Installation of the FruitHAPNotifier Android app

In the FruitHAP distribution under ClientApps/FruitHAPNotifier there is an APK which you can install on any Android device which has Android 4.2 or later.

Good luck!

How to setup a development environment

TODO