Raspi Garage Door Monitor

This is now my base.

Raspi garage door monitor.

Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface. 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 work for the first time. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014. The important piece of hardware which detect the physical world the garage door into electron signals for the raspberry pi.

First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi. The controlling is done in one topic. A magnetic field will cause the reeds to come together thus completing an electrical circuit. 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.

Then wire the relay to the garage door opener. An adafruit feather huzzah checks whether the garage door is open shut via a magnetic switch then sends the current status to an adafruit io feed. This made me better aware about webcam streaming to monitor the door. This sensor essentially is a reed switch.

If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. Garage door controller v1 1 monitor and control your garage doors from the web via a raspberry pi. Inside the house a raspberry pi zero w with a 4 digit alpha display subscribes to the feed via mqtt and displays the current status. Today i will discuss the same with you.

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. Maybe i d have to recycle a usb hub or fetch another webcam. With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status. Completely wireless garage door opener security cam by deckerego.

Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay. 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. I regularly do that remotely e g. Raspberry pi control from mobile device or desktop web browser by frédérick blais.

Raspberry pi garage door opener. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.

You can also get a notification on your phone from ifttt. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.