When i think of home automation with a raspberry pi controlling my garage door is the first project that comes to mind.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with sensor.
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Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
Look up your brand and see where your connections should go.
Status of the window with a magnetic switch.
And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
Magnetic garage door sensor 10.
Unlike window sensors garage door sensors typically can sense the magnet from 2 or more away.
Build a raspberry pi door window sensor with reed relais.
This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
This should come with both a magnet to mount on the garage door and a sensor to mount on the door frame.
You ll need one per garage door.
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.
Don t worry about the direction because the relay will isolate the circuit.
A check with infrared light barriers or other methods would certainly be possible but in this case that is much more complicated.
The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different.
So i decided to build this myself.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.
I n addition to a surveillance camera and motion sensors information about open windows and doors is also of interest to a self built surveillance system.
He will easily attach the pi with garage motor by following the wires on the button and can also connect the relay exactly like that.
This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.
The two left most terminals are to control the door.
The seco larm sm 226l works well.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.
My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals.
