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Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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Creating several lamps from the cloud


In the second project of this chapter, we are going to apply what we learned earlier and control several lamps from the cloud using a single dashboard.

To actually assemble the project, I recommend checking Chapter 4, Control Appliances from the Raspberry Pi Zero where we saw how to connect the PowerSwitch Tail Kit to the Raspberry Pi Zero. You need to connect the PowerSwitch to GPIO14 of the Raspberry Pi board.

This is how one module looks like:

Now, configure each board with the exact same code as in the previous section and give a different ID to each board. I also recommend changing the name of the boards inside the code; for example, to know where you placed them in your home (bedroom, living room, and so on).

Then, go back to the website where we created a cloud dashboard and create a new dashboard:

In there, create a new On/Off element for each lamp you want to control, on pin 14:

This is how your dashboard should look like at the end:

You can now try...

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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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