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Home Automation
Many small-scale projects are in progress that use the Raspberry Pi for home automation, or domotics
as it is also known. The ease with which sensors and actuators can be attached to it, either directly or
via an Arduino, make the Pi eminently suitable as a control center.
Most approaches have the Raspberry Pi hosting a web server on the local network so that a browser
anywhere on the network can be used to control various functions in the home, such as turning lights
on and off or controlling the thermostat.

Summary
The Raspberry Pi is a very flexible and low-cost device that will assuredly find many ways of being
useful to us. Even as just a simple home computer for web browsing on the TV, it is perfectly
adequate (and much cheaper than most other methods). You’ll probably find yourself buying more
Raspberry Pi units as you start to embed them in projects around your home.
Finally, don’t forget to make use of this book’s website (www.raspberrypibook.com), where you
can find software downloads, ways of contacting the author, as well as errata for the book.