raspberry-pi-home-security-monitoring

A home security monitoring app for raspberry pi

This is going to be my attempt to connect a raspberry pi to a window, door and motion sensors.

Troubleshooting

Having issues with TK?

import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk

Mac OS

This one helped me.

• Stackoverflow

brew uninstall pyenv && rm -rf ~/.pyenv.
# add it back
brew update
brew install zlib
brew install tcl-tk 
brew install pyenv

Pi Setup

In addition to adding this python code you will need to make sure some of the underlying services are installed as well.

Pi0-Pi 5 Compatabilty Libraries

To make this compatibale with Pi 5 I'm using lgpio, this is a system wide library and is not installed with pip (however lgpio is a pip library that needs to be installed).

Install this on the raspberry pi device

sudo apt install lgpio python3-lgpio

Future Enhancements

Add support for Ring Actions / Notifications

• https://github.com/python-ring-doorbell/python-ring-doorbell

Add IoT MQTT Support (send events to AWS for longterm monitoring and actions)

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide
• Store the data in DynamoDB