Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener With Sensor

Hooking up the sensor.

Raspberry pi garage door opener with sensor.

In addition to a surveillance camera and motion sensors information about open windows and doors is also of interest to a self built surveillance system. 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. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. In addition to using a raspberry pi the project uses two sensors to determine whether or not the garage door is open.

So a temperature sensor in. And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone. Raspberry pi garage door opener. I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.

Build a raspberry pi door window sensor with reed relais. Today i will discuss the same with you. My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals. Its abit past my skills to programme but it works well and all the info you need to build is included in the article.

Great automatic door opener. A check with infrared light barriers or other methods would certainly be possible but in this case that is much more complicated. The door sensor has two wires connect 1 wire doesn t matter which to a free pin i chose pin 8 you need to refer to this pin in the code explicitly and the other to one of the ground gnd pins pin diagram here. Start up the raspberry pi and go to the desktop type.

In practice a simpler and cheaper device such as an ardunio microcontroller would work. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part. Raspberry pi 3 garage door opener.

The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different. The two left most terminals are to control the door. Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote. 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.

Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage. First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi. 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 project also lets users send a command to the door thus enabling you to.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. Look up your brand and see where your connections should go. Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.