Install and optimize rasbian for our purposes.
Raspberry pie garage door opener.
Garage door opener using a raspberry pi.
Below is a list of the parts i gathered together to get started.
Control garage motor from a smartphone or any device able to browse a webpage with ajax.
Raspberry pi garage door opener a suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage two channel relay a compatible usb wifi adapter or an ethernet cable as per your preference jumper wires female to female micro.
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This will allow us.
Using female to female jumper cables wire pin 11 on the pi to the in1 pin on the relay.
Raspberry pi garage door opener step 1.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
This first step is to install an operating system to your rpi.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi step 1 parts.
And of course we ll need software to drive the relay but we ll deal with that later.
Step 3 setup.
The project was started as i only had one remote for my garage.
Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github.
We ll use the raspberry pi to drive the relay which will activate the garage door opener.
How fun was it to buy a second one.
The next step is to setup your wifi from the command line.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
The following is diagrammed below but i ll describe it here as well.
Step 2 setup the sd card.