CHAPTER 1

Designing and Building Home Automation Projects

I LIKE TO THINK OF THIS CHAPTER as providing the prerequisite knowledge to allow you to build home automation (HA) projects as detailed in this book and other sources. It also seems that learning about the “big picture” is always a useful approach before digging into specifics and fine-grain details. The next section details a generalized approach to designing and implementing an HA solution.

I will include a Parts List at the beginning of each chapter so that readers can identify what parts will be required to duplicate the projects and/or demonstrations presented in that chapter. The Parts Lists also provide suggested sources that are current at the time of this writing. Actual parts ...

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