Preface

THIS BOOK IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU, as a maker, can help automate your home or business to both improve the quality of your life and coincidentally achieve some efficiencies. The latter may be actual energy savings or may be simply improving the everyday flow of personal activities. I also included using the Raspberry Pi as a principal controller in most of this book’s projects because it so inexpensive yet provides amazing capabilities and functionalities when implementing home automation (HA) solutions.

I have written about HA projects in several of my earlier maker books, which also included the Raspberry Pi as the main controller. However, in this book, I have included some rather extensive discussions regarding personal voice assistants ...

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