Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener With Camera

First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.

Raspberry pi garage door opener with camera.

Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage. I found the edimax ic 3110p poe camera. Then another wire for the to a ground on the pi. It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part.

Configure your garage door opener and camera. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay. The switch contacts are usually labeled white and black and will be the same ones your wall switch es are attached to. Plug back in the pi and let it boot.

Today i will discuss the same with you. Enter your camera s password and ip address so that the installation script can automatically create the configuration file for you. The relay should be wired in the normally open position so that when activated the circuit will close and the garage door will open close. Complete python script for door opener is given at the end here we have explained few parts of it.

I wasn t willing to kill my only remote. Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote. Internet controlled raspberry pi garage door opener camera posted on june 18 2013 as for the camera there weren t a lot of features i needed except for poe power over ethernet and it had to have night vision. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.

Creating the python script for smart garage door opener. The script took 37 minutes to run on my pi so expect to wait a while. Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay. So you basically remove the battery on the remote and connect the on the battery compartment on the remote to the 3v on the pi.

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. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. Connect 2 wires from each garage door opener switch contacts to the relay. This script will interact with our raspberry pi gpios and sets up the web server.

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. First make a folder. Then wire the relay to the garage door opener. Raspberry pi garage door opener.

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou. Conection to garage door openers. Run sudo shutdown and then unplug the pi.

So this is the core script for our application. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.