Smart Home
Table of Contents
Intro
My Smart Home wiki page.
This includes links to other pages that I have made
I have been making lots smart home type wiki pages over the years, so made this page to tie them all together, and include more info on my latest methods.
Some of the pages are incomplete, may try to finish them but making no promises.
I started my Smart home projects years ago, bought my first zwave switches in 2007. Really was ahead of my time, had limited use back then. I integrated with my harmony zwave capable remote so I could use my ht remote to control lights too, but otherwise not much I could do.
Fast forward to 2022. I have a smart home with integration into my pool/spa, sprinklers, HVAC, many lights, outdoor lighting, garage door, washing machine monitoring, doorbell alerts, refrigerator and freezer open alerts, security cams, etc. Always new stuff I want to add, but its pretty extensive now. And I have an Alexa interface so I can ask Alexa to do many things around the house. But not with the standard Alexa app, I use Node Red for my Alexa interface for more flexibility and less reliance on Amazon.
Links
IOTstack (installs most of my smart home programs)
Node Red (with sublinks for Sony TV, Windows, Directv, Roku and below
Alexa
NR Update
Tasmota
LIRC (read IR into Pi) (old, using Tasmota instead)
Security Cams (needs update)
Misc Pi Info
disk info
df-h
lsblk -fp
sudo fdisk -l
Filesize of folders
ncdu -x <some folder>
cd ~/
ncdu -x IOTstack
cntl c to exit
Delete file
sudo rm filename
Drive Speed check
sudo apt-get install hdparm
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
Mount usb drive
EXT4 Drive
Make a directory to use as mount point
sudo mkdir /mnt/usbstick
cd /mnt/usbstick
Plug in USB drive, then get info and its UUID
df -h
sudo blkid
To manually mount
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
Unmount
sudo umount /mnt/usbstick
For automatic mounting
Get UUID
sudo blkid
Edit fstab file
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add this line to fstab, replace UUID with one from above
Note that my UUID was much longer than this example
This assumes usb disk is formatted as ext4:
UUID=FC05-DF26 /mnt/usbstick ext4 defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail 0 0
Test
sudo mount -a
Check
df -h
and check line, make sure you see /mnt/usbdisk at end
/dev/sda1 230G 60M 218G 1% /mnt/usbstick
Exfat drive
Not sure if reboot is necessary. df -h doesn't list it, but fdisk -l does
sudo apt install exfat-fuse
sudo reboot
check for drive
sudo fdisk -l
manual mount command
sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
sudo blkid
Note the uuid for your drive
Edit fstab file
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add this line to fstab, replace UUID with one from above
UUID=1AC1-887E /mnt/usbstick exfat defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail 0 0
Test
sudo mount -a
Asus router NAS Mounting
Old Info (mostly for Netgear router)
Asus router setup
From webpage at https://router.asus.com:8443/Main_Login.asp
login, then go to USB Application on left, then Servers Center, then top for Network Place (Samba) Share / Cloud Disk
Enable share.
I also enable guest because I have my network locked down.
I gave it a device name of rt-86u. This is used in mount statements
Click apply at bottom
Select Media Server on top
I added my directories with media here to make them accessible.
Click apply at bottom
There is a directory called 2gb on my usb drive I want to share
I tested in browser to make sure I could get to
smb://rt-86u/2gb
Now make mount directory in pi
cd /mnt
sudo mkdir rt-86u
cd /mnt/rt-86u
Mount the drive now, manually
sudo mount -t cifs //rt-86u/2gb /mnt/rt-86u -o guest,vers="1.0"
Check to see if drive mounted
cd ..
ls rt-86u
If it didn't work, you could try this version. Above worked for me
sudo mount -t cifs //rt-86u/2gb /mnt/rt-86u -o guest,vers="1.0",sec=ntlmv2
Note that I mounted 2gb directory on USB SSD attached to Asus to /mnt/rt-86u
To make it work permanently after a power cycle, you need to edit fstab
cd /etc
sudo nano fstab
Add this line to fstab:
//rt-86u/2gb /mnt/rt-86u cifs guest,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=60,vers=1.0 0 0
Test by rebooting pi, or by this:
sudo mount -a