Smart Mirror - Personal Home Hub Assistant

This is a smart mirror prototype as a local and remote interactive hub and assistant. Create and have fun with a cheap IoT, cloud-ready and useful home assistant.

Demo

Capabilities

• Voice recognition and controlling system

• Face recognition for security and customization

• Android remote controller (local WiFi and Internet)

• Weather forecast for 5 days

• Internal temperature and humidity

• Movement sensor

• Distance sensor

• Light sensor

• Backlight on/off

• Roll-up shutter remote controller

• Current time/date

• Customizable alarm clock

• Security assistant for intruders with mail notification

• Distance check

• News browser

• Facebook browser

• Gmail browser

• Calendar browser

• List of commands

• Picture slideshow

• MP3 music player

• Internet radio player

• List of command reminder

• Controllable volume

• List of intruders

• Webcam mirror capability

• Remote picture shutter

• Remote text-to-voice

• User management

• Exportable configuration

• Picture and music library updatable via Windows PC

The project

Hardware

• Raspberry PI 3

• Microsoft webcam/microphone

• PC monitor

• Relay

• Distance sensor

• Movement sensor

• Temperature/humidity sensor

• Light sensor

• Speaker

• Gate remote controller

• Switch

• Some wood

Software

• Windows 10 IOT

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

• Xamarin (Android)

• Microsoft Cognitive Services API (Cloud)

Future developments

• Boiler controller

• IFTTT integration

• Remote video monitor (Android)

• Full voice recognition

• Optimization to stability/performance