Creating our dashboard using CherryPy

To create our home security dashboard, we will modify the code we wrote in Chapter 7, Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Web Server. These modifications include adding sensory data from the GPIO—something we became very good at by the end of Chapter 8, Reading Raspberry Pi GPIO Sensor Data Using Python.

Two of the inputs, the temperature and humidity sensor and the Pi camera, will require additional steps so that we can integrate them into our dashboard.

Using the DHT11 to find temperature and humidity

The DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor is a low-cost hobbyist-grade sensor, capable of providing basic measurements. The DHT11 comes in two different versions, the four-pin model and the...