Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
Raspberry pi garage door opener.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
Open up your terminal and type the following commands.
Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.
Download the filezilla in the ssh terminal write below commands.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
It proved to anyway use the same kind of electrical setup for the command part.
Same kind of setup but using an extra wireless remote.
Now in filezilla log in by entering the hostname username as pi and password as raspberry.
Along the way i learnt about webiopi to check my gpio over a webpage.
Ssh pi pi s ip address sudo chown r pi root var www.
I wasn t willing to kill my only remote.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.
All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
After this upload the files from the application to var www.
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.