How To Make A Garage Door Opener With Raspberry Pi

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How to make a garage door opener with raspberry pi.

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. 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. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. 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.

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a. Today i will discuss the same with you. The project also lets users send a command to the door thus enabling you to.

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 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. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. 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. In addition to using a raspberry pi the project uses two sensors to determine whether or not the garage door is open. 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. Modify the image as you would like using mac paintbrush.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. One image is the background remote background jpg and the other is the active image remote press jpg.