Raspberry Pie Garage Door Opener

With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.

Raspberry pie garage door opener.

Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay. Below is a list of the parts i gathered together to get started. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. And of course we ll need software to drive the relay but we ll deal with that later.

Raspberry pi garage door opener a suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage two channel relay a compatible usb wifi adapter or an ethernet cable as per your preference jumper wires female to female micro. The next step is to setup your wifi from the command line. Install and optimize rasbian for our purposes. Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi step 1 parts.

How fun was it to buy a second one. This will allow us. I followed this guide to setup the sd card with noobs and bootup the pi for initial setup. The project was started as i only had one remote for my garage.

This first step is to install an operating system to your rpi. Setup wifi via the command line. All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi. Step 2 setup the sd card.

Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. Step 3 setup. Garage door opener using a raspberry pi. Prices will most likely not be same.

We ll use the raspberry pi to drive the relay which will activate the garage door opener. The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well.