Patrick Delaney

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Flask Web App to Display Open Source Smarthome Data

Dec 31, 2018

Smarthome data is an area rich for exploration, with hobbyists and makers having collected and stored all sorts of interesting ambient data around their homes for years. This is a look into hosting a Flask-based app to display said data.

Project Summary:

Flask Web App to Display Open Source Smarthome Data, with code hosted here and app built on Heroku here. App may take up to 5 minutes to load.

Background Rationale

Smarthome data is an area rich for exploration, with hobbyists and makers having collected and stored all sorts of interesting ambient data around their homes for years. A friend of mine, who will go anonymous, provided me with smarthome data, which was cleaned as discussed in this blog post.

Once the data was cleaned, there is of course a need to display it somehow. This was an investigation into a novel way to display the data.

Benefit and to Whom

This is an open source project. There are many smarthome enthusiasts around the world who have put a lot of thought into home automation, but not necessarily ways to clean and display their data. This provides an open source example for the smarthome audience.

Project Status or Outcome

Code for the project can be found here.

The app itself can be found deployed here. This is deployed on a free version of Heroku, which means it may take up to 5 minutes to load as the server wakes up.

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