Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
Raspi garage door monitor.
The controlling is done in one topic.
The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
The important piece of hardware which detect the physical world the garage door into electron signals for the raspberry pi.
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.
When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt.
Maybe i d have to recycle a usb hub or fetch another webcam.
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.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
This is now my base.
This made me better aware about webcam streaming to monitor the door.
Today i will discuss the same with you.
Raspberry pi control from mobile device or desktop web browser by frédérick blais.
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.
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 of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.
Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface.
Garage door controller v1 1 monitor and control your garage doors from the web via a raspberry pi.
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.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
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 work for the first time.
This sensor essentially is a reed switch.
I regularly do that remotely e g.
Completely wireless garage door opener security cam by deckerego.
I still have to put some effort into that.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled.
You can also get a notification on your phone from ifttt.
