Rpi Jessie Web Page Button For Garage Door

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Rpi jessie web page button for garage door.

The purpose of this project is to build a device to control an electric garage door opener and show the status of the door via the web and make it smart phone friendly. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall. Open the terminal and navigate to garage door folder and run the below command mentioned below. Raspberry pi 3 garage door opener.

Garage door web server step 10. Sudo python app py navigating to garage door folder. Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou. The garage door is controlled by a button hung on the garage wall.

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. A raspberry pi liftmaster garage door opener closer plugin for homebridge using gpio pins. Get a magnetic contact switch like this and use rpio to detect if the door is open or closed. Where i started a simple button to command the relay.

I wired it to the existing garage door opener button. It was anyway very helpful to understand the concept around dedicated rpi to control a motor from a relay. Setting up the hardware. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.

There s even a webcam attached to the pi so you can rest assured that the door is really closed. Designed for a simple hardware setup without any feedback. Posted on may 20 2013 by eveready1010. Supports opening closing states via a time estimate and stopping the door while opening and closing.

If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a. Open the browser and enter the ip address of raspberry pi and press enter. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.

Integrate with another system utilizing the simple rest api. Fork raspberrypi relay controller and customize the web interface such as changing the button labels then simply run provision sh again to push out the updates. Have you ever forgotten to close your garage door and remembered to shut it later. In this tutorial i will show you how to open and close your garage door over the internet using a raspberry pi relay and web io pi.

Same kind of setup but. No open close buttons no feedback. The cabling i use now is still the same for the command part. There is only a pair of wires so a simple relay should be all that is needed to simulate the button press from a raspberry pi.

I tapped into the buttons on the wall and ran a pair of wires to the relayboard and connected them to common and normally open. 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.