Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener Reboot Relay Low

When i simulate a power loss by disconnecting and then reconnecting the pi s power plug once the pi boots the relay light comes on automatically which suggests that a reboot will cause my garage door to open as a result of the reboot i don t have anything connected to my garage opener yet.

Raspberry pi garage door opener reboot relay low.

In the image above a high resolution genie garage opener was used a raspberry pi logo was added and the led was removed. Gdopi relay garage door opener hookup. Modify the image as you would like using mac paintbrush. 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.

For example i have a relay that controls my garage door openers. 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. Low conection to garage door openers. One image is the background remote background jpg and the other is the active image remote press jpg.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit. Grab a high resolution remote garage door opener from the web. 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.

The challenge i see here is getting some sort of feedback from your high voltage side to your low voltage side back into your raspberry pi openhab in the absence of power on your high side. Plug back in the pi and let it boot. Run sudo shutdown and then unplug the pi. 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.

Before you apply power to the raspberry pi 2 that will be serving as your garage door opener rpi hereafter referred to as gdopi wire up the relay to the gpio via f f jumper wires per the following diagram. Shutdown the pi insert the wifi dongle and then start. When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay. I use a reed switch to report whether the garage door is open or closed.

The switch contacts are usually labeled white and black and will be the same ones your wall switch es are attached to.