Mononymous YouTuber Boris, of the channel BorisDigital, has gone a step past most dwelling automation setups by taking the House Assistant dashboard and making it bodily — utilizing a pair of Raspberry Pi single-board computer systems to construct an industrially-inspired wall-mounted management panel.
“I modeled this after fashionable business jetliner cockpits, and likewise somewhat on nuclear energy plant management rooms,” Boris explains of the management panel’s aesthetics. “Each are nice issues to include into your décor in my view! I’ve a fairly advanced House Assistant setup, and this panel makes it simpler to view and management what is going on on in the home at a look.”
Most House Assistant customers management their setups via the software program’s net interface, however Boris opted for one thing extra concrete. The panel features a 7″ touchscreen show linked to a Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B+, which flips via a collection of House Assistant dashboards configured via an extension. Bodily buttons subsequent to the display screen deliver up different pages, together with safety cameras and knowledge on the panel itself.
The display screen is just a small a part of the management panel. Three units of seven-segment LEDs beneath the display screen present readings from an Aeotec House Vitality Meter for the monitoring of voltage, amperage, and wattage of 1 or each incoming phases. Buttons beneath these management lights, switches, and retailers — “and I’ll even label them some day,” Boris jokes.
The underside half of the panel is the place the economic styling actually exhibits: the casing is marked with a schematic diagram of the home’s plumbing system, with LEDs feeding again on water movement, leakages, and overflows as and after they occur. “For example,” Boris explains, “if I open up a faucet, the water meter LED turns inexperienced after which this bar graph exhibits the speed of movement via the system. If the movement is just too excessive or lasts for too lengthy, it triggers an alarm.”
There’s loads of wiring hiding within the management panel — sufficient to require general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) growth modules. (📷: BorisDigital)
The management panel even features a bodily key, locking out the buttons if not inserted. Every part bar the show is linked to a second Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B+, with each boards linked to the house community via Ethernet — minimizing cabling via using Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) boards.
The mission is detailed in full within the video embedded above and on the BorisDigital YouTube channel.