** Raspberry Pi based lights control system

• uses serial protocol to control Arduino via USB

• Arduino runs rcswitch library to control lights

• Lights are 433mHz switches from Maplin with the control hacked

• IR control of lights monitored by Arduino

• Pi runs webiopi server to provide web interface

• Able to control lights via time (heavily base on Eric Ptak's example)

• Pyephem calculates sun rise and sunset to allow year round automation

• option to have lights on early in morning (until sunrise)

• option to have randomness to lights to make it look like someone is in the house when you are away

• GUI updates even if the lights are controlled by the IR

• code is messy as this was only my second hardware/ software project