Automate Your Home Using Go

Build a Personal Data Center with Raspberry Pi, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana

by: Ricardo Gerardi and Mike Riley

Published 2024-08-22
Internal code gohome
Print status In Print
Pages 160
User level Intermediate
Keywords Go, Raspberry PI, DIY, home automation
Related titles

Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go by Ricardo Gerardi
Portable Python Projects by Mike Riley

ISBN 9798888650509
Other ISBN Channel epub: 9798888651230
Channel PDF: 9798888651247
Safari: 9798888651223
BISACs COM095000
TEC004000
TEC004000
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Take control of your home and your data with the power of the Go programming language. Build extraordinary and robust home automation solutions that rival much more expensive, closed commercial alternatives, using the same tools found in high-end enterprise computing environments. Best-selling Pragmatic Bookshelf authors Ricardo Gerardi and Mike Riley show how you can use inexpensive Raspberry Pi hardware and excellent, open source Go-based software tools like Prometheus and Grafana to create your own personal data center. Using the step-by-step examples in the book, build useful home automation projects that you can use as a blueprint for your own custom projects.

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With just a Raspberry Pi and the Go programming language, build your own personal data center that coordinates and manages your home automation, leveraging the same high-powered software used by large enterprises. The projects in this book are easy to assemble, no soldering or electrical engineering expertise required.

Build a temperature monitor that can send alerts any time defined thresholds are exceeded and report the temperature readings on a time-based series chart. Change the color of lights to visually indicate the current outdoor weather status. Create a networked motion detector that triggers an alert any time motion is detected, such as a door opening or closing, a pet wandering around, or deliveries or visitors arriving on your front porch. Even have these triggers initiate a more complex Go-based automation sequence. Integrate a small, high-resolution camera into a bird feeder that takes excellent, up-close photos whenever a bird perches at the feeder, and broadcasts them to your Discord server where your family and friends can see these wildlife captures in real time.

Control your home with hardware you configure, and manage it with Go code that you create and modify any time you want to enhance your home automation capabilities.

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