Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wireless Z-wave module, door sensors, fire alarm, motion sensors, hidden on/off switch. Raspberry itself works as the camera and has motion detection if needed. Event notices are send using xmpp.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very interesting. So you basically have an alarm system in software then? What do you use for software? Do you have an arm/disarm function?

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    • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Raspberry Z-wave module came with rudimentary software, that was just awful. Documentation and debug tools were utter crap and I never want to do that kind of trial and error bs ever again.

      I basicly use the software to pass trigger events to linux and handle the timing and remote UI. Linux commandline clients then handle sending messages, capturing images/video and sending captured material to a cloud server.

      Software allows remote control through webpage, that you can access either directly in LAN or through an obscure server that uses reverse SSH to get past your firewal.

      I blocked the shady SSH connection and only use it directly through my VPN.

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      • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I assume by “Raspberry Z-Wave module” you mean the RaZberry, and I couldn’t agree more. I tried to get that thing going with another home automation package and gave up after a few hours of fucking with it.

        That said, these days I’m using Home Assistant on a RPi with a Nortek z-wave/zigbee combo radio USB interface and I couldn’t be happier. If you’ve never used HA it’s worth trying out; used to require a lot of scripting but now it’s a beautiful and polished system that has all the tweakability a nerd wants with a nice high-WAF GUI. They have a plugin that does exactly what you’re doing and makes a virtual alarm system out of existing sensors.

        I also agree block connections and use a VPN to access it, I do the same thing.

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