Raspi Garage Door Module

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.

Raspi garage door module.

The second one written originally in python and later converted into node js enables using a raspberry pi camera module to visually inspect the garage door along with a gpio controlled 2 channel relay soldered on to a garage door opener remote to open and close the door via an intranet web app. 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. 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 project was started as i only had one remote for my garage.

For this step we ll be hooking up your raspberry pi s gpio pin 23 physical pin 16 to a relay. Now either break apart a spare garage door remote or just wire the relay directly to your garage door. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a.

Consult your garage manual how to do this. Control garage motor from a smartphone or any device able to browse a webpage with ajax. Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github. Garage door opener using a raspberry pi.

How fun was it to buy a second one. I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project.