Today i will discuss the same with you.
Pi garage door opener homekit.
Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1.
First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.
You can customize a ton of settings.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
A homekit enabled garage door opener with myq lets you integrate siri voice control set scenes and much more.
And i really wanted to be able to use it with homekit so i used a pi to do this too.
But since the first raspberry pi launched in 2012 i started tinkering to make an automatic garage door opener using my pi board and smartphone together.
See what happens when myq meets apple homekit.
Homekit garage door openers offer more than just the ability to determine the status of your garage door.
These openers can open and close automatically when you arrive or leave your home work in tandem with other devices in automation and of course can work with siri.
Now you should be able to see the garage door switch on the home app.
They offer a 70 box that will bridge this into homekit but why pay 70 when you can do it for free with homebridge.
It can remotely open and close up to three garage doors from iphone ipad mac and apple watch.
This option is a little more complicated but potentially offers the cheapest way to get your door into homekit.
This depends on what you already have in your setup specifically if you already have an existing non homekit myq bridge gateway like the chamberlain myq g0301 shown here.
This is a pro homekit garage door opener in many ways.
Test of my garage door opener project with apple home.
And the feature list doesn t stop at just that.
If you do or if you have a homebridge setup the open source bridge solution not the device then.
I have a liftmaster garage door opener with their myq wifi feature.
Each time you open or close the switch the open py and close py python scripts on your raspberry pi are running.
Ismartgate homekit integrated garage door opener.
Part 2 coming.