Pi Garage Door Opener

We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.

Pi garage door opener.

When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage. A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage. We will provide a writing estimate and all our services comes with a warranty. And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.

If you connect the relay to this terminal directly and mount the raspberry pi in the garage you won t need a remote. Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay. If you are ready to upgrade repair replace or install a garage door opener or commercial door we invite you to contact us and give us the opportunity to help you to fulfill your requirements. The two left most terminals are to control the door.

With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status. I recommend purchasing a new one for around 30 at home depot programming it and then taking apart your old one. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. Lawmakers in california recently passed senate bill 969 a law requiring all garage door openers to be equipped with a battery backup system in the event that a home s power goes down.

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. 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. My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals. Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground.

Our staff is ready and waiting to hear from you. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014. Look up your brand and see where your connections should go.

Its very simple to open up one you already have and connect it to this project. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay. The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different. Raspberry pi garage door opener first of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.

When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay. The new california garage door opener battery backup law is said to save people from becoming trapped inside their houses when there is a power cut making it easier for them to get out in the event of an.