How To Make A Garage Door Opener With Raspberry Pi

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How to make a garage door opener with raspberry pi.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. After only writing software for many years in web development creating something that interacts with the real world was a special kind of excitement for me when i saw it. 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. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.

Grab a high resolution remote garage door opener from the web. The goal is to hook a raspberry pi up to my garage door opener set up some sensors to determine the state of the garage door and create a web page that will control it all. 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. In the image above a high resolution genie garage opener was used a raspberry pi logo was added and the led was removed.

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. 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. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a.

In addition to using a raspberry pi the project uses two sensors to determine whether or not the garage door is open. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. Today i will discuss the same with you. I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project.

Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. The project also lets users send a command to the door thus enabling you to.