Raspberrypi Garage Door Controller

Not for ease of use compared to classic remote but as many geek projects just for the fun of it.

Raspberrypi garage door controller.

Tired of not using my raspberry pi as a boring mediacenter i decided to transform it into an useless useful garage door remote controller. 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. The purpouse is to use my nexus 5 and lg g watch as a remote control for opening closing my garage door.

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. A raspberry pi enabled with wi fi preferably or ethernet single strand wires magnets a usb power supply of at least 1a output capacity to drive the raspberry pi things to make the custom pcb listed in the bom check the bom txt file attached for the detailed bill of materials things i. From andrewshilliday on github. Fork raspberrypi relay controller and customize the web interface such as changing the button labels then simply run provision sh again to push out the updates.

Learn programming c javascript jquery the mean stack mongo express angular and node and excel. 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. Learning programming made easy. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.

Garage door controller piday raspberrypi raspberry pi. Monitor and control your garage doors from the web via a raspberry pi. Integrate with another system utilizing the simple rest api. 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.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. The software is designed to run on a raspberry pi which is an inexpensive arm based computer. Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. Get a project box like this one and enclose everything nicely. This project provides software and hardware installation instructions for monitoring and controlling your garage doors remotely via the web or a smart phone. Get a magnetic contact switch like this and use rpio to detect if the door is open or closed.

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