How To Make A 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.

How to make a raspberry pi garage door opener.

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. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. 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.

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. This script will interact with our raspberry pi gpios and sets up the web server. 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. Complete python script for door opener is given at the end here we have explained few parts of it.

The project also lets users send a command to the door thus enabling you to. I connected my raspberry pi to my garage door by hooking the pi into an extra garage door opener i had laying around. Raspberry pi garage door opener. So this is the core script for our application.

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. 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 instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.

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. 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.

First make a folder. Creating the python script for smart garage door opener.