Raspberry Pi Garage Door Alert

Part 2 by richard l.

Raspberry pi garage door alert.

Compatible with raspberry pi a b a b pi 2 pi 3 pi 4 and pi zero wh models. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. 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. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. Raspberry pi sms garage door butler. So i created my own that contains much more security logging of who opens the garage video capture garage status and more features. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.

A terminal window will appear with the pi raspberrypi prompt. The first one written in python enables attaching a magnetic switch sensor to the door and sends out alerts as texts emails tweets etc when the door has been open for x number of minutes. After only writing software for many years in web development creating something that interacts with the real world was a special kind of excitement for me when i saw it. This is done by configuring raspberry pi s gpio to the magnetic sensor.

Learning programming made easy. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a. Learn programming c javascript jquery the mean stack mongo express angular and node and excel. Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi.

Most raspberry pi garage door remotes had open ports or other features i wasn t too fond of. Thanks to steve from the. A wifi raspberry pi connected to a 2 channel relay connected to my actual garage door remote allows me to open and close my garage door with just a browser on my smartphone. Making your garage door email tweet or sms.

Double click on lxterminal on the raspberry pi desktop. Lynch on august 4 2013 132 comments this section describes how to configure email twitter and sms alerts in pi garage alert. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. Capture images from your raspberry pi camera module also works great with pi noir camera and email a photo of the intruder to your phone record a 10.