Relay I/O Board is widely used in applications of smart home project. In this article, I will detail how to control the Relay I/O board using Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi Universal Expansion Board via internet. The codes and schematic diagrams used in this article was listed at the end of this article. Part I: […]
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– Smart home application framework Application Notes Overview Smart home portal is a web-based smart home application framework which is optimized for smartphone. Refer to the flowing system diagram, the Arm based embedded system (Raspberry Pi with add on boards) should be placed in the home which runs Web server with PHP and CGI/FastCGI supports.
Prerequisites: Part 3: Using Serial Port on Universal Expansion Board Python CGI script with lighttpd (Root privileges are required) 1. Install pyserial on RaspberryPi a. Download pyserial-2.5.tar.gz (106.3 kB) b. unzipping and untaring gunzip pyserial-2.5.tar.gz tar -xvf pyserial-2.5.tar c. Install pySerial cd pyserial-2.5 sudo python setup.py install 2.Testing Saving following python CGI scripts to your
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1.Edit lighttpd.conf $sudo vim /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf 1. Change cgi.assign = (“.php” => “/usr/bin/php5-cgi”) server.error-handler-404 = “/index.html” To cgi.assign = (“.php” => “/usr/bin/php5-cgi”, “.py” => “/usr/bin/python” ) server.error-handler-404 = “/index.html” 2. Change static-file.exclude-extensions = ( “.php”, “.pl”, “.fcgi”) To static-file.exclude-extensions = ( “.php”, “.pl”, “.fcgi”, “.py”) 3. Change index-file.names = ( “index.php”, “index.html”, “index.lighttpd.html” ) To index-file.names
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