Preface

The Raspberry Pi is an amazing development platform that was introduced back in 2012, along with the release of the first board. However, due to its price, it was not convenient for people to use it for smart home applications, where you need to deploy several modules at different places of your home. Usually, people building smart homes with this board used it as a central hub.

However, in 2016 the Raspberry Pi foundation released the Zero board, which is a smaller and much cheaper version of the Raspberry Pi board, and this changed everything for the home automation field. Now, you can actually use several of these boards in a home automation system and enjoy all the power and flexibility of the Raspberry Pi for all your projects.

This is exactly what I will teach you to do in this book. You will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi Zero board in several home automation projects, in order for you to build a smart home that is really tailored to your needs.