Smart Mirror with Home Automation using chats

Project Idea

The project Smart Mirror with home and garden automation describes the design and development of a futuristic smart mirror that represents an unobtrusive interface for the ambient home environment with automation using Raspberry Pi. The mirror provides a natural means of interaction through which the residents can control the household smart appliances and access personalized services. Emphasis is also given to ensure convenience in accessing these services with a minimum amount of user intervention. The smart mirror functionalities have been demonstrated by developing an easily extendable home automation system that facilitates the integration of household appliances and various customized information services like live custom wallpaper display. Even more, all the appliances connected to this device can easily automate with the online remote chats through telegram. This creates the mirror with more utilities using Raspberry Pi.

Requirement Specifications

• The system has the ability to display latest news in technology.

• The system has the ability to detect the presence of the user.

• The system has a relatively lower cost than existing designs.

• The system functions as a mirror.

• The system looks aesthetically appealing.

• The system has a customizable background.

• The system has a means to control home appliances like fan and light through chats.

• The system has a separate account in telegram or any other opensource API.

Block Diagram:

Pictorial Diagram:

Step-7: Get your latest downloads by following steps below

1. Open Putty (or Terminal in Raspberry pi Screen)

2. Type follow commands (takes little time to perform each command)

• Get latest update

sudo apt-get update

• Install Python to Raspberry Pi (18MB)

sudo apt-get install python-dev

sudo apt-get install python3.5

• Install GPIO Library to Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio

• How can I use Raspberry Pi on my portrait monitors?

Edit the /boot/config.txt file (sudo nano /boot/config.txt) and add a line to the bottom (without the description):

display_rotate=0 Normal

display_rotate=1 90 degrees

display_rotate=2 180 degrees

display_rotate=3 270 degrees

display_rotate=0x10000 horizontal flip

display_rotate=0x20000 vertical flip

I used display_rotate=1

• Install the browser

sudo apt-get install midori

• To stop going blank screen after sometime

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

ABOVE the “exit 0” line insert:

setterm -blank 0 -powerdown 0 -powersave off

sudo nano /etc/kbd/config

Find the line for BLANK_TIME and POWERDOWN_TIME and set them to 0.

BLANK_TIME=0
POWERDOWN_TIME=0

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Step-8: Do the steps below:

• Create a folder as smart

• Download the files to that folder

• Copy it to pen drive and paste it in /home/pi/ of Raspberry it. It looks like /home/pi/smart/. Inside this, it contains web contents.

Step-9: Start up the Raspberry pi with browser with link

• Open below address to Edit the autostart file:

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

• Comment out everything using a ‘#‘ at the start of each line and then add the following lines

# Auto run the browser
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@midori --display=:0 -e Fullscreen -a file:///home/pi/smart/index.php

• Reboot the raspi

sudo reboot

2.GETTING STARTED WITH TELEGRAM BOT CREATION

2.1. Basic Steps

Step-1: After install Telegram in your device(Smartphone/PC/Laptop/WebApp), register it.

Step-2: Search “BotFather” without quotes and click on it.

Step-3: Press Start and press /newbot

Step-4: Enter the bot name (Example: IOF Bot)

Step-5: Choose a username for your bot. It must end in `bot` without space. (Example: IOFbot)

Step-6: Note down <token key> and keep it safe.

Step-7: Search the bot in search bar and open it.

Step-8: Click Start

3.GETTING STARTED WITH TELEGRAM

Step-1: You can install or upgrade python-telegram-bot with:

sudo pip install python-telegram-bot

Step-2: Test your bot

sudo python /home/pi/smart/finala.py <BOT_TOKEN> <YOUR_CHAT_ID>

Here replace <BOT_TOKEN> with your bot Token Key (get it from BotFather) and replace <YOUR_CHAT_ID> with your chat id(find it from your telegram profile)

After running this, if you get as “Listening…”, then your bot works fine.

Step-3: To start the bot at startup of raspberry pi

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Before “exit 0”, add the following line.

sudo python /home/pi/smart/finala.py <BOT_TOKEN> <YOUR_CHAT_ID> &

Double check that, the line should ends with ‘&’(single &). If not then the system goes collapse.

4. MIRROR AS WALLPAPER OR PHOTO FRAME

At night time, mostly we won’t see mirror right. At that time, we can make this smart mirror as Photo frame, as shown in below figure.