Mononymous YouTuber Boris, of the channel BorisDigital, has gone a step past most residence automation setups by taking the Dwelling 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 trendy industrial jetliner cockpits, and likewise a bit on nuclear energy plant management rooms,” Boris explains of the management panel’s aesthetics. “Each are nice issues to include into your décor for my part! I’ve a reasonably complicated Dwelling Assistant setup, and this panel makes it simpler to view and management what is going on on in the home at a look.”
Most Dwelling Assistant customers management their setups via the software program’s internet 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 Dwelling Assistant dashboards configured via an extension. Bodily buttons subsequent to the display convey up different pages, together with safety cameras and knowledge on the panel itself.
The display is just a small a part of the management panel. Three units of seven-segment LEDs beneath the display present readings from an Aeotec Dwelling Power Meter for the monitoring of voltage, amperage, and wattage of 1 or each incoming phases. Buttons beneath these management lights, switches, and shops — “and I could even label them some day,” Boris jokes.
The underside half of the panel is the place the commercial styling actually reveals: the casing is marked with a schematic diagram of the home’s plumbing system, with LEDs feeding again on water circulate, 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 reveals the speed of circulate via the system. If the circulate 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 the usage of Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) boards.
The undertaking is detailed in full within the video embedded above and on the BorisDigital YouTube channel.