Auto music arriving home......

[brantje]

(8th Aug, 2013 05:07 PM)Skywatch Wrote:  Wow!

Thanks for all the input, I didn't expect you all would be interested

Having thought about it I have a simple workable solution.

Leave the pi playing radio station of choice. Have a relay turning the power to the amp off and set a door opening detector (or button remote) to turn on the amp again when entering. Easy and the pi's low power makes it a green soltion too.

I suppose you could also detect when the phone/tablet logs into the wi-fi (ie when in range) and use that to turn on the amp again.

Both options are simple, no messing with phone/tablet in the rain or juggling the shopping etc...

There will be a 'one shot' detector so that I can 'arm' the system to auto play on leaving the house so that only the first opening of the door will trigger a music event. Subsequent door openings will not trigger unless set to do so in the software.

Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and highlighting areas of concern.

Now once this is up and running I have another plan......

Skywatch

What i have is an cron job, that executes every minute to check if i'm away.
If i'm away (aka mobile phone not found on network), then the security system is activated.