Author: Praveen M Nair Mail: praveen.nair@icloud.com

Open source z-wave library for home automation

I have the following

1. aeon z-stick
2. raspberry pi: hosts the backend to control my z-wave devices and a simple web interface over lighttpd to interact with the backend.

There are 3 parts here

1. zwave_lib: A simple zwave protocol library with its own test code.
2. hzremote: The remote daemon that uses the zwave protocol library and provides an XML-RPC interface to control your zwave module I have an aeon z-stick that acts as my gateway to all my z-wave enabled devices
3. www: A simple web interface written in PHP and JS. This web interface talks to my backend using the XML-RPC interface I host it on a lighttpd server

1. Create web location that the server will use in /var - sudo mkdir /var/www - sudo groupadd www-data - sudo adduser www-data www-data - sudo usermod -a -G www-data www-data - sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

2. Install lighttpd - sudo apt-get update - sudo apt-get install lighttpd

3. Install php5 - sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-fpm php5-cgi php5-cli php5-common

4. Setup lighttpd Create following symlinks from /etc/lighttpd/conf-available to /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled - 10-accesslog.conf - OPTIONAL - 10-cgi-php.conf
   - 10-fastcgi.conf
   - 15-fastcgi-php.conf
   - 15-fatcgi-php.conf - 10-proxy.conf - For routing requests to XMLRPC server

5. Add the following in 10-proxy.conf

proxy.debug = 1 $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/RPC2" { proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 8080 ) ) ) }

1. Install raspbian wheezy on the raspberry pi You can follow the detailed notes from http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

2. Install necessary tools and libraries - sudo apt-get install build-essential make git - sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libxmlrpc-c3-dev

3. Fetch the latest source code - cd /opt - git clone http://github.com/pmnair/zwave-remote

4. Compile the library - cd /opt/zwave-remote/ - mkdir bin - mkdir lib - cd zwave_lib - make clean all - cd ../hzremote - make clean all

5. Deploy the web interface - sudo cp -a /opt/zwave-remote/www/* /var/www/ - sudo service lighttpd restart

6. Start the control app - /opt/zwave-remote/bin/hzremote --daemon NOTE: to automatically launch the service add the above line to /etc/rc.local

7. From another machine on the network launch a browser and enter the following address http:///hzr.php

NOTE: Drop me a mail if you face issues with any of the instructions above; comments, improvements code enhancements are all welcome.