It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.
Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage.
Download the filezilla in the ssh terminal write below commands.
Now in filezilla log in by entering the hostname username as pi and password as raspberry.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
Ssh pi your pi s ip address sudo rm var www index html sudo chown pi root var www exit cd desktop scp garageopener zip pi your pi s ip address var www ssh pi your pi s ip address cd var www unzip garageopener zip rm garageopener zip any os download filezilla.
I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.
The relay should be wired in the normally open position so that when activated the circuit will close and the garage door will open close.
Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Ssh pi pi s ip address sudo chown r pi root var www.
Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote.
After this upload the files from the application to var www.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
Open up your terminal and type the following commands.
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.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.