Couch Door

Couch Door

Couch Door (CD for short) is a device that informs you from any event happening at your front door. On this project you will be using Raspberry pi 2 with Windows 10 core to control your hardware. On net connections we will be using Windows Azure Mobile Services for databases and push notifications.

In CD we will be connecting your doorbell to Raspberry which will then monitor voltage state changes through GPIO bus. On state change Raspberry pi will start your web cam and starts to stream the view from the peephole to internet. Users will be notified to their mobile devices through Azure with push notifications. Azure will also store usage logs on the database.

Furthermore, CD will track mailbox activity with similar techniques, tracking voltage changes and then notifying users through push notification.

During this project we will create two different applications: one for Windows 10 core that will control raspberry pi 2 and another one for Windows Phone 8.1 that will work as a mobile client.

Key Features of CD:

Connecting your doorbell to internet.

Connecting your peephole to internet.

Connecting your mailbox to internet.