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 trendy industrial jetliner cockpits, and likewise a little bit 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 by the software program’s internet interface, however Boris opted for one thing extra concrete. The panel features a 7″ touchscreen show related to a Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B+, which flips by a choice of House Assistant dashboards configured by an extension. Bodily buttons subsequent to the display screen carry up different pages, together with safety cameras and data on the panel itself.
The display screen is barely 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 could even label them some day,” Boris jokes.
The underside half of the panel is the place the economic styling actually reveals: the casing is marked with a schematic diagram of the home’s plumbing system, with LEDs feeding again on water stream, leakages, and overflows as and once they occur. “As an example,” Boris explains, “if I open up a faucet, the water meter LED turns inexperienced after which this bar graph reveals the speed of stream by the system. If the stream is simply 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) enlargement modules. (📷: BorisDigital)
The management panel even features a bodily key, locking out the buttons if not inserted. Every little thing bar the show is related to a second Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B+, with each boards related to the house community by Ethernet — minimizing cabling by the usage of Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) boards.
The venture is detailed in full within the video embedded above and on the BorisDigital YouTube channel.