Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener Homekit

While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution.

Raspberry pi garage door opener homekit.

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. Use three wires to connect the relay to the raspberry pi. Hello i am having trouble with garagedooropener homekit node. Raspberry pi garage door opener.

My garage door remote uses the cr2032 battery which is 3 3v and coincidentally the raspberry pi also has a 3v terminal which is right next to the 5v plug. 20 january 2019 13 52 1. These two wires will go to the garage door opener. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone.

Once added to homekit your garage door will be able to provide notifications for events and can be controlled through siri or the ios home app. So you basically remove the battery on the remote and connect the on the battery compartment on the remote to the 3v on the pi. A compatible usb wifi adapter or an ethernet cable as per your preference jumper wires female to female micro sd card of 4gb or higher. I thought that it would be fun to control my garage door with siri ios homekit and spent some time building a basic controller using javascript and some nice node js packages.

I have a reed switch attached to send the status of the door open closed and that going into the homekit node. The problem that i am running into is when the garage door is opened by a. I use raspberry pis to run homebridge and control off the shelf devices i have already and also create my own compatible devices that integrate seamlessly with my homekit setup. Hardware this summer i decided to explore home automation using a raspberry pi.

The garage pi is admittedly just using the pi as a linux machine without making any special use of the board. Then another wire for the to a ground on the pi. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. Geofencing within the home app can also open and close your door automatically when you arrive or leave for the day.

Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. Homekit allows for secure local control but as the home bridge is still a normal myq device as well it still expects and needs to have access to the myq internet service to. Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1.

The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014. A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage.