How To Make A Garage Door Opener With Raspberry Pi

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.

How to make a garage door opener with raspberry pi.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. 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. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. 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.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. Today i will discuss the same with you. 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. One image is the background remote background jpg and the other is the active image remote press jpg.

This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. Grab a high resolution remote garage door opener from the web.

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. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a.

Modify the image as you would like using mac paintbrush. In the image above a high resolution genie garage opener was used a raspberry pi logo was added and the led was removed.