Raspberry Pi Garage Door Controller

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.

Raspberry pi garage door controller.

Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay. Raspberry pi garage door opener. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. The raspberry pi is a versatile asset when it comes to home diy projects and this pi powered garage door control system is no exception.

This will make setting up the raspberry pi software very straightforward. Now that the relay is connected to the pins it s time to setup the os and software we will use to control the relays. Learn programming c javascript jquery the mean stack mongo express angular and node and excel. We ll use the raspberry pi to drive the relay which will activate the garage door opener.

This raspberry pi based garage door opener is capable of controlling of your garage door which enables you to open close the door when desired and lets you monitor the status to report back if the door is opened or closed at that moment. The raspberry pi will connect to the coil with a diode between the control red wire and ground black wire pins. Thanks to steve from the steve does stuff youtube channel. The purpouse is to use my nexus 5 and lg g watch as a remote control for opening closing my garage door.

Below is an example of where the the relay connects to the garage door. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well. Arch linux arm will be used as the os and the raspberrypi relay controller project will be used to provision the pi with ansible and install all necessary software.

Not for ease of use compared to classic remote but as many geek projects just for the fun of it. Learning programming made easy. Tired of not using my raspberry pi as a boring mediacenter i decided to transform it into an useless useful garage door remote controller. Using the controller web service the garage door controller application runs directly from the raspberry pi as a web service running on port 8081 or port 8444 when https is enabled.

Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi.