Home automation is part of our future, whether we like it or not. Here are a few examples of automation as it relates to the Raspberry Pi.

In this short video, Simon Maple and Andy Stanford-Clark show the new WebSphere Liberty Profile interfacing with Really Small Message Broker (RSMB) via an MQTT client (eclipse Paho). This results in MQ messages being sent to control devices 50 miles away on the Isle of Wight! Part of the set-up runs on a Raspberry Pi.

This was originally featured on dzone.com: Controlling a House 50 Miles Away With MQTT and Raspberry Pi | Server Zone.

Here’s another home automation video I found on YouTube:

Here’s another video where GPIO is used to control relays

These next two videos are another example of home automation. There is also a blog covering the project. They claim you can do it for under £30, which all RPi owners know is a bit of a fib as the Pi itself costs more than that to get it delivered. But, anyway…

Here’s a video about a project called PiHome. This has a website with supporting code and information.

Jon Skagmo has developed a transmitter for use in home automation projects called PiHAT.

And of course the now-classic combination of SiriProxy opening a garage door with the help of a Raspberry Pi.