How To Make A Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener
The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a.
How to make a raspberry pi garage door opener. 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. One of the inspirations for this project was the fine instructable at raspberry pi 3 garage door opener along with several others found on the internet not being a seasoned electronics person i did a whole lot of additional research on ways to interface with the raspberry pi and learned a lot about the importance of resistors with led bulbs and with all gpio wiring. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. The project also lets users send a command to the door thus enabling you to.
First make a folder. I connected my raspberry pi to my garage door by hooking the pi into an extra garage door opener i had laying around. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. Creating the python script for smart garage door opener.
This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. 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. 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.
Raspberry pi garage door opener. In addition to using a raspberry pi the project uses two sensors to determine whether or not the garage door is open. Raspberry pi garage door opener. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
So this is the core script for our application. 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. Complete python script for door opener is given at the end here we have explained few parts of it. First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.
The wireless controller battery is 3v and the pi only needs to send 3v to it. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.