Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener Ifttt

Garageqtpi is an implementation that provides methods to communicate with a raspberry pi garage door opener via the mqtt protocol.

Raspberry pi garage door opener ifttt.

Four jumper cables plus one more for each extra door you want to control. This software makes it easy to turn the gpio pin on and off with a command. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. Using ifttt with the raspberry pi nov 11 2018 ifttt if this then that is a free iot service that allows you to send a trigger from one device thing and allow that trigger to make something happen elsewhere.

We ll use the raspberry pi to drive the relay which will activate the garage door opener. And of course we ll need software to drive the relay but we ll deal with that later. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m su. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. A lower rated model may have trouble driving the relay board as well as the pi. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. Although it is designed to work out of the box with a home assistant cover component it can also be used as the basis for any raspberry pi garage project.

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. Cheap speaker wire is ideal but telephone or ethernet cable can work too. The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.

The idea is to connect a raspberry pi gpio pin to a relay that simulates pressing a physical garage door button by closing the circuit for half a second. Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou. I ve seen the raspberry pi used by friends as a media player but with the release of windows 10 iot i decided it was time i started hacking with it. I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.

Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay. Raspberry pi garage door opener. Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage. For my first project i chose to see if i could control my garage door.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. A 2a power supply for the raspberry pi. Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.