Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Raspi garage door monitor.
The controlling is done in one topic.
Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled.
I regularly do that remotely e g.
An adafruit feather huzzah checks whether the garage door is open shut via a magnetic switch then sends the current status to an adafruit io feed.
Garage door controller v1 1 monitor and control your garage doors from the web via a raspberry pi.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.
This made me better aware about webcam streaming to monitor the door.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt.
A magnetic field will cause the reeds to come together thus completing an electrical circuit.
You can also get a notification on your phone from ifttt.
I still have to put some effort into that.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.
This sensor essentially is a reed switch.
Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface.
This is now my base.
Completely wireless garage door opener security cam by deckerego.
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.
Inside the house a raspberry pi zero w with a 4 digit alpha display subscribes to the feed via mqtt and displays the current status.
Maybe i d have to recycle a usb hub or fetch another webcam.
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.
The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
Today i will discuss the same with you.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
The important piece of hardware which detect the physical world the garage door into electron signals for the raspberry pi.