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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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Build an automated cloud thermostat


In the last section of this chapter, we are going to apply what we learned in the previous section, but this time to build a cloud thermostat that will work using IFTTT.

Apart from the Raspberry Pi Zero that will control an electrical heater via the PowerSwitch Tail, you will need another Raspberry Pi Zero with a DHT11 sensor that we have already used several times in this book. In order to assemble this module, I recommend checking for example the second chapter of this book.

Once you have your two modules assembled, go again to IFTTT and create a new recipe, using the Maker channel for the trigger and for the action channels.

For the trigger, enter the following event:

Of course, if the temperature is too low, it means that we want to activate the heater. We therefore need to send this command to the board that controls the heater:

Once this recipe is created, create another for the temperature_high event:

When the temperature is too high, we automatically...

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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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