The Introduction

Date: 12-Jul-2020

This is a log of my efforts in building a Home Automation kit in the lines of Jarvis. Not the Tony Stark one, but the Mark Zuckerburg one: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634/

Mark's system, has much more complexity than my expertise would carry me to, but I guess that would be a good vision to achieve to. 

Couple of things, that I totally would want to carry from that project is 

1.) The decentralised manner in which the intelligence would be scattered around, unlike an Alexa or Google-Home. 

2.) Context sensitive responses. I do not want it to switch on the lights of entire house when I ask it to switch on in just my room. It also should figure out who is giving commands and from where.

Couple of things, which I wont be carrying from that project is:

1.) The mobile listening posts. So my applications are going to run on raspberry-pi. This provides me a cheap way to run the processing. It also allows me to run and extend my system on a generic OS(Linux) and not in a controlled environment like IOS or Android.

2.) I would be using as much stuff which is available in the market to do this project. I am doing this entirely on a greenfield system. So I can be little lazy and use standardised solutions like a zigbee gateway than to operate on a device level.

Watch the space for more!