Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener With Sensor

Build a raspberry pi door window sensor with reed relais.

Raspberry pi garage door opener with sensor.

Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. A check with infrared light barriers or other methods would certainly be possible but in this case that is much more complicated.

When i think of home automation with a raspberry pi controlling my garage door is the first project that comes to mind. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.

Status of the window with a magnetic switch. This should come with both a magnet to mount on the garage door and a sensor to mount on the door frame. The seco larm sm 226l works well. And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.

Look up your brand and see where your connections should go. I n addition to a surveillance camera and motion sensors information about open windows and doors is also of interest to a self built surveillance system. My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals. This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure.

The two left most terminals are to control the door. Raspberry pi garage door opener. In this tutorial it will be shown how to easily check the e g. He will easily attach the pi with garage motor by following the wires on the button and can also connect the relay exactly like that.

You ll need one per garage door. Unlike window sensors garage door sensors typically can sense the magnet from 2 or more away. Sunfounder raspberry pi 3 model b 37 modules sensor kit v2 0 for rpi 4b 3 b 2b a zero raspberry pi board included 4 4 out of 5 stars 141 135 99 135. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.

Magnetic garage door sensor 10. All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. The goal is to hook a raspberry pi up to my garage door opener set up some sensors to determine the state of the garage door and create a web page that will control it all.