Raspi Garage Door Module

Garage door opener using a raspberry pi.

Raspi garage door module.

Once you have raspbian up running and connected to wifi we want to install the garage door software. 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. Control garage motor from a smartphone or any device able to browse a webpage with ajax. If you re connected to the pi directly with a screen and keyboard skip to the next step.

If you want to connect to the pi remotely from another computer we are going to use ssh. 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. The project was started as i only had one remote for my garage. 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.

How fun was it to buy a second one. My target was to be able to control and monit. 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. You can also see the state of the relay.

So i decided to build this myself. When i think of home automation with a raspberry pi controlling my garage door is the first project that comes to mind. Make sure the relay module is connected to raspberry pi. As soon as you turned on the relay button text will be changed close to turn off the relay.