I followed this guide to setup the sd card with noobs and bootup the pi for initial setup.
Raspberry pie garage door opener.
Install and optimize rasbian for our purposes.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
The project was started as i only had one remote for my garage.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.
Below is a list of the parts i gathered together to get started.
Control garage motor from a smartphone or any device able to browse a webpage with ajax.
The next step is to setup your wifi from the command line.
And of course we ll need software to drive the relay but we ll deal with that later.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
This will allow us.
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Step 3 setup.
Garage door opener using a raspberry pi.
Step 2 setup the sd card.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi step 1 parts.
Setup wifi via the command line.
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.
Raspberry pi garage door opener step 1.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well.
Raspberry 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 two channel relay a compatible usb wifi adapter or an ethernet cable as per your preference jumper wires female to female micro.
Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay.