This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.
Raspberry pi garage door opener ifttt.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote.
Garageqtpi is an implementation that provides methods to communicate with a raspberry pi garage door opener via the mqtt protocol.
Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage.
While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.
For my first project i chose to see if i could control my garage door.
A 2a power supply for the raspberry pi.
This software makes it easy to turn the gpio pin on and off with a command.
Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github.
Enough two core cable to reach between the pi and the garage door motor.
This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.
The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well.
This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.
And of course we ll need software to drive the relay but we ll deal with that later.
We ll use the raspberry pi to drive the relay which will activate the garage door opener.
Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay.
While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
Although it is designed to work out of the box with a home assistant cover component it can also be used as the basis for any raspberry pi garage project.
I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.
Using ifttt with the raspberry pi nov 11 2018 ifttt if this then that is a free iot service that allows you to send a trigger from one device thing and allow that trigger to make something happen elsewhere.
The idea is to connect a raspberry pi gpio pin to a relay that simulates pressing a physical garage door button by closing the circuit for half a second.
Cheap speaker wire is ideal but telephone or ethernet cable can work too.
This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m su.
