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PiHome version 1.70

January 26, 2020

As always, great contribution to PiHome Smart Heating by the community. PiHome community always working hard to improve some of exiting feature to make things better. If you have any feedback or run into any issues you can always find help on PiHome site. This release packed with some serious improvements and bug fixes, to name some of them as follow: #69 Missing save button on Zone edit #65 i2C interface Relay support #61 Ability to Add/Edit & Delete Exiting…

Smart Home Gateway from NRF24L01 to Ethernet/WiFi

June 14, 2018

Admin

Lets Build

All nodes i.e temperature sensors, boiler relay module, zone relay module etc. are scattered around the house that are responsible for controlling light, heating and other IOT devices serves very little purpose if we can not communicate with them or pass some instructions. Most of the time these devices are battery powered and even ones with main powered don’t communicate through home WiFi and for the battery powered nodes WiFi isn’t the option due to the fact how WiFi works…

Download PiHome Smart Heating Controller Raspberry Pi SD Card IMG

September 13, 2019

Admin

Downloads

Download PiHome Smart Heating Controller Raspberry Pi SD Card IMG: PiHome Smart Heating Raspberry pi 4GB SD card image with the LAMP stack and including Apache, PHP 7.x and MySQL/MariaDB and phpMyAdmin pre installed and configured, you can download this image and burn it on SD card (minimum 4GB sd card required). if you need help with how to copy img file to SD card please check this OS Installation and WiFi Configuration. Download PiHome Smart Heating SD Card IMG

Troubleshooting – Install Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB on a Raspberry Pi (LAMP) with phpMyAdmin

March 2, 2018

Admin

General Help

Troubleshooting Apache, PHP 7.0, and MariaDB LAMP, LAMP is an acronym that stands for Linux Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP. I have LAMP installation post for PiHome but i see lots and lots of people are looking for setting up php 7 with phpMyAdmin and MariaDB on raspberry pi and there isn’t any comprehensive set of instruction that covers this all for PHP 7, MariaDB on raspberry pi. If you are installing LAMP on your Raspberry Pi for PiHome follow OS…

Raspberry pi Heating Boiler Control System Relay

March 1, 2018

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Lets Build

Raspberry pi Heating Boiler Control System Relay: Control gas boiler from raspberry pi GPIO with 5v relay by connecting it to room thermostat connection on gas boiler without passing any voltage to gas boiler or at least this is how i did it as my gas boiler had thermostat connector available. You need to check this with your boiler user/technical manual. You can control high voltage electronic devices using relays modules that are readily available in the market. I am…

Build a Web Connected Raspberry pi Thermostat

November 15, 2017

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Lets Build

Build a Web connected raspberry pi thermostat and control your heating from any smart devices, PiHome comes with following two options one Wired to GPIO and wireless with nRF24L01. I strongly suggest you to download PiHome Smart Heating img file for your raspberry pi with PiHome pre-installed and configured with all dependencies. You can download User Manual for PiHome Connection Wired Heating System Connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO 1-Wire DS18b20 Temperature Sensor Multi Zone Heating Control System Relay Raspberry pi…

Raspberry pi Multi Zone Heating Control System Relay

February 27, 2018

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Lets Build

Raspberry pi Multi Zone Heating Control System Relay: If your house have Multi Zone Heating then you can control each zone heating independently with raspberry pi and this will save you lot on your heating cost considering that you don’t have to heat all the house all the time. In this post i will show you how to build wired multi zone heating control system relay and control it from raspberry pi gpio so we can open and close zone…

OS (Raspbian Jessie) Installation and WiFi Configuration

October 11, 2017

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Lets Build

This step by step how-to will help you to install OS (Raspbian Jessie) on your Raspberry Pi, i have selected Raspbian Jessie for this purpose. this how-to also include Wi-Fi settings without connecting display to raspberry pi. Installing Linux OS (Raspbian Jessie) on Raspberry Pi Easiest cross-platform way to install Linux on your Raspberry Pi is using the NOOBS installer, but we are installing Raspbian using diskimager utility. Go to the Raspberry Pi download page Download the Raspbian zip file.…

Install Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Raspberry Pi (LAMP)

October 11, 2017

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Lets Build

LAMP is an acronym that stands for Linux Apache, MySQL and PHP, these are the components required to run and present web interface of PiHome Smart Heating Control. PHP 5 no longer supported by PiHome, you can use it as at your own discretion, also mysql users need to disable ‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’ sqlmode see GitHub for more information Note: if you are here for some troubleshoot Raspberry Pi LAMP (PHP and MySQL/MariaDB on a Raspberry Pi with phpMyAdmin) then check out…

MySQL Access From Remote Computer

October 13, 2017

Admin

General Help

By Default MySQL only accept local connection to enable MySQL access from remote computer we need to make some changes. Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf file and search for bind-address line and comment it out and save it.

# bind-address = 127.0.0.1

1	# bind-address = 127.0.0.1

User Permission Login to MySQL by issuing following command, you will be prompted for my your MySQL root password.

mysql -u root -p

1	mysql -u root -p

Enter MySQL root password that we set when you installed MySQL server on rpi, after successful login issue following command to give access to…