Home Automation Simulation Project

 

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Recently I code a simple project using ESP8266 to simulate an Home Automation Project. In this post I'll let the explanation and the GitHub link to the code to you be able to create and run this project. Feel free to add other devices and upgrade. All the credits are on the GitHub project :)

Setup

Make sure that you have installed ARDUINO IDE, that you can find here https://www.arduino.cc/en/software. You can easily download and open the IDE. After this, add ESP8266 to your board list.

Project

The idea is to simulate an Home Automation with simple Arduino components. Here I use leds, a buzzer, resistors and a test board, that represents the lights of the house and some sound device. Besides that, one cell phone or smart device is necessary to access the web application that control ESP8266, generated on an IP address.

Below you can check the project schema, that is also described with comments at the code. The process is:

• Create the physical part of the project like the image below
  
• Pass the code to your board through Arduino IDE (change the ssid and password for your network information)
  
• Download a tool to look for IP connections on your network (like IP scanner or Fing)
• Access your board with the ESP8266 IP address on your browser (just type the IP address on Safari, Chrome or any browser).

A web page will be created and you will be able to control your application. Link to the project: https://github.com/Jadyla/home_automation_ESP8266

You can get more information at the project.