Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
Pi garage door opener.
A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
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.
My garage door remote uses the cr2032 battery which is 3 3v and coincidentally the raspberry pi also has a 3v terminal which is right next to the 5v plug.
Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part.
Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground.
When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage.
I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
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We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.
If you are ready to upgrade repair replace or install a garage door opener or commercial door we invite you to contact us and give us the opportunity to help you to fulfill your requirements.
What you need to perform this press is a relay.
So you basically remove the battery on the remote and connect the on the battery compartment on the remote to the 3v on the pi.
In this case our raspberry pi can tell the relay to press the garage door button.
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The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.