Raspberry Pi, Official 7 inch Touch screen and Kivy framework
In March 2022 I start building my own radio shack as a house, a small one but with all necessary needs . This house will respect country traditions, but some hidden high tech also, like my smart home controller. Will provide basic electric floor heating , A/C , remote control/ supervisory and will also be capable of remotely control all my hamradio devices.
- Xiaomi BLE interogated via pure BASH gattool within bluetooth tools.
- Values stored in MariaDB database.
- Python-vlc in charge of headless media player.
- Python multiprocessing to avoid touch screen lag.
- Kivy framework driving all kaboodle.
- Custom CRUD API to get mobile phone remote access.
- A lot of new programming skills yet to be learned.
- New front plate will be CNC build, to be inserted into wall at a comfortable height.
- A small custom UPS is yet to be built, to ensure a minimum 3 hours of normal operation if main power fails. It will assist 4G mobile router also.
- Half of the roof will be filled with 12×500 W solar panels connected to national main grid, about 50 KWh/day will be produced during summer days, about 5 months of power production per year.
- This Green energy production will allow my to get electricity zero cost for main city home and what goes extra will be pumped into electric boiler cascaded into gas heating in order to lower the gas cost there. Is a long project but hopefully I will get it done !