The goal is to hook a raspberry pi up to my garage door opener set up some sensors to determine the state of the garage door and create a web page that will control it all.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with sensor.
This should come with both a magnet to mount on the garage door and a sensor to mount on the door frame.
The two left most terminals are to control the door.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different.
While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.
And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.
He will easily attach the pi with garage motor by following the wires on the button and can also connect the relay exactly like that.
I n addition to a surveillance camera and motion sensors information about open windows and doors is also of interest to a self built surveillance system.
My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
You ll need one per garage door.
Look up your brand and see where your connections should go.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.
Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
Unlike window sensors garage door sensors typically can sense the magnet from 2 or more away.
Build a raspberry pi door window sensor with reed relais.
Status of the window with a magnetic switch.
So i decided to build this myself.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.
This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.
When i think of home automation with a raspberry pi controlling my garage door is the first project that comes to mind.
Don t worry about the direction because the relay will isolate the circuit.
In this tutorial it will be shown how to easily check the e g.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
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A check with infrared light barriers or other methods would certainly be possible but in this case that is much more complicated.
