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Rpi jessie web page button for garage door.
Posted on may 20 2013 by eveready1010.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.
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 wired it to the existing garage door opener button.
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.
Setting up the hardware.
Internet controlled raspberry pi garage door opener.
This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.
Designed for a simple hardware setup without any feedback.
Garage door web server step 10.
Same kind of setup but.
Supports opening closing states via a time estimate and stopping the door while opening and closing.
The cabling i use now is still the same for the command part.
Open the terminal and navigate to garage door folder and run the below command mentioned below.
Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
Get a project box like this one and enclose everything nicely.
A raspberry pi liftmaster garage door opener closer plugin for homebridge using gpio pins.
Sudo python app py navigating to garage door folder.
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.
Open the browser and enter the ip address of raspberry pi and press enter.
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.
There s even a webcam attached to the pi so you can rest assured that the door is really closed.
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.
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.
My config settings.
Integrate with another system utilizing the simple rest api.
It was anyway very helpful to understand the concept around dedicated rpi to control a motor from a relay.
Where i started a simple button to command the relay.
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.
No open close buttons no feedback.
Get a magnetic contact switch like this and use rpio to detect if the door is open or closed.
The garage door is controlled by a button hung on the garage wall.
I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.