ac-cloudifier

Making my dumb AC smart. This project controls a GE window air conditioner with MQTT messages.

Overview

This project demonstrates the use of the following:

• A multi-process application written in C and Python.
• A custom Yocto image with CI infrastructure.
• Yocto recipes written from scratch for internal applications and third-party open source projects.
• Safe, leak-free C programming, targeting embedded Linux.
• The use of Linux drivers, sockets, pthreads.
• Configuration of a board support package.
• OpenCV for basic machine vision and OCR.
• Bash scripts.
• SystemD services.

More

The full writeup is here, with pictures and diagrams!

Repositories

• cu-ecen-aeld/final-project-IvanVeloz contains the Wiki.
• IvanVeloz/ac-cloudifier-prj contains the project board.
• IvanVeloz/ac-cloudifier contains the application code. It targets Raspbian and/or the project's Yocto build.
• IvanVeloz/ac-cloudifier-yocto contains the Yocto build.
• IvanVeloz/ac-cloudifier-demo contains code snippets to demonstrate the drivers and hardware work. It targets Raspbian and/or the project's Yocto build.

System diagram

AELD peer reviewers: please visit the Project Overview for more details.