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BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

You're reading from  BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783986026
Pages 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
Profile icon Rodolfo Giometti

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Dangerous Gas Sensors 2. Ultrasonic Parking Assistant 3. Aquarium Monitor 4. Google Docs Weather Station 5. WhatsApp Laundry Room Monitor 6. Baby Room Sentinel 7. Facebook Plant Monitor 8. Intrusion Detection System 9. Twitter Access Control System with Smart Card and RFID 10. A Lights Manager with a TV Remote Controller 11. A Wireless Home Controller with Z-Wave Index

Setting up the software


Now, it's time to play hard! We have to install a new kernel with specific patches in order to add the needed drivers. Then, we must set up our Google account in order enable the Google Docs API to manage a spreadsheet on the cloud. And, in the end, we must install and properly configure the weather station software we chose to collect the weather data.

Installing a new kernel

To install a new kernel, we must use a host PC where we use the following command to download the sources:

$ git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel.git

When finished, we must enter the bb-kernel directory and then check out the kernel, version 3.13:

$ git checkout am33x-v3.13

Now we should configure the compilation suite by generating a proper configuration file named system.sh, starting from the sample file as follows:

$ cp system.sh.sample system.sh

On my system, I modified the newly created system.sh file with the following settings:

CC=/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-
MMC=/dev/sdd

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