IoT with Raspberry Pi, Firebase, Angular
Demo
Why Firebase
- Forget (IaaS) Infrastructure as a Service and vm pricing
- Google's (BaaS) Backend as a service
- Less expensive billing
- Authentication - Identity provider
- Functions - Custom server code for API's, m2m, IFTTT, express code.
- Database - 3 way binding realtime database + document db firestore
- Hosting - Single page applications + server url rewriting
- Storage - CDN, Google's cloud storage
Cloud
- Custom API's with Firebase Functions for m2m triggering
- Custom Angular web app to open/close garage, Firebase Authentication, Firebase token validation
- firebase-bolt - to secure database
- firebase init
- firebase deploy
Raspberry Pi
- nvm - Node Version Manager
- pm2 - Production Process Manager for Node.js apps with a built-in Load Balancer. Used to launch app on reboot and recover from failures.
- firebase-queue - processes queued tasks with our custom code to drive Raspberry Pi gpio pins.