Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener Alexa

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.

Raspberry pi garage door opener alexa.

Magnetic sensor mounted to wooden header at top of garage door. Raspberry pi garage door opener. Alexa tell trigger c m d to run door on garage intermediate protip 1 hour 903. Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground.

You can purchase this relay switch on amazon at. With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status. Unlike window sensors garage door sensors typically can sense the magnet from 2 or more away. Many thanks to all the people who actually code and took the time to share.

Then wire the relay to the garage door opener. I knew a majority of the time members of my household would be using this via alexa. The seco larm sm 226l works well. Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. Recommended but not required. Open your garage with alexa and a raspberry pi run commands on your raspberry pi with alexa and triggercmd.

I tried to link. Raspberry pi enclosure. This subreddit also lists tutorials and guides for the newbies to make the best use of their raspberry pi for learning and understanding about computers and software. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.

This is a subreddit dedicated to raspberry pi owners listing all available projects that could be done on their raspberry pi. Requires programing your raspberry pi a relay switch. Beginner full instructions provided 1 hour 9 740. Voice controlled garage door opener with alexa open and close the garage door with alexa have alexa tell you if the garage door is open.

For my first project i wanted to use a rpi to open and close my garage door.