Raspberry pi garage door opener.
Raspberry zero w 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.
Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
Wiring 4 ch relay to raspberry pi.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
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 relay should be wired in the normally open position so that when activated the circuit will close and the garage door will open close.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
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.
Raspberry pi zero w with case on amazon.
First step is to solder a gpio header to your pi zero assuming it doesn t.
Setting up software raspberry pi.
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.
Alexa controlled garage door opener using raspberry pi duration.
The main interface we will be using with the raspberry pi is the gpio.
Introduction to the raspberry pi gpio.
With the help of pejaver s raspberry pi project the garage door automatically opens when the tesla model y approaches the garage door and closes after it s parked.
There are many different combinations that will work i tried to be clear but.
Raspberry pi zero garage door opener using blynk step 1.
So you can look up resistors on wikipedia but what do they mean to us.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
Raspberry pi zero garage door opener hardware step 1.