Garage Door Status Raspberry Pi

Open up the garagedoor consumer solution and run it as well.

Garage door status raspberry pi. About 5 years ago i wrote about a solution i had for controlling my garage doors from my phone. Raspberry pi zero w technically any raspberry pi with wireless capability will do fine but for this application a raspberry pi zero w works really well. The next step is to update the operating system and install the software required to run the pi garage alert software. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.

A raspberry pi enabled with wi fi preferably or ethernet single strand wires magnets a usb power supply of at least 1a output capacity to drive the raspberry pi things to make the custom pcb listed in the bom check the bom txt file attached for the detailed bill of materials things i. It was a fun project and generally has been working well. Design hardware that can control and monitor the status of the door. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.

Raspberry pi garage door opener lets you monitor and close your garage remotely. Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. Opening garage doors with a raspberry pi december 22 2016.

At this point your raspberry pi has the raspbian operating system installed and it can connect to the internet. I m looking for a way to have smartthings control the garage door opener. I ve written a few ways to open close the garage door mostly involving making the open close status available via http and making a url available to make it open and close all in my internal network. 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.

Go ahead and run the application. By ash puckett 15 april 2020. Currently i have the open closed status. Learn programming c javascript jquery the mean stack mongo express angular and node and excel.

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. Case for raspberry pi optional it s a good idea to have a case for the pi and other electronics to shield it from environmental abuse. I have a garage door opener and sensor connected via gpio to a raspberry pi. The pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.

The consumer application should automatically find the services running on the raspberry pi and start to read the current temperature. Go ahead and play with the garage door sensors to verify that the ui is updating as the garage door changes state.