How To Make A Garage Door Opener With Raspberry Pi

First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.

How to make a garage door opener with raspberry pi.

One image is the background remote background jpg and the other is the active image remote press jpg. Raspberry pi garage door opener. Raspberry pi garage door opener. A wifi raspberry pi connected to a 2 channel relay connected to my actual garage door remote allows me to open and close my garage door with just a browser on my smartphone.

After only writing software for many years in web development creating something that interacts with the real world was a special kind of excitement for me when i saw it. While this has been done before i thought i d post my solution. In addition to using a raspberry pi the project uses two sensors to determine whether or not the garage door is open. 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.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. Grab a high resolution remote garage door opener from the web. Today i will discuss the same with you.

This was my first hardware project and instructable ever and i m sure. But since the first raspberry pi launched in 2012 i started tinkering to make an automatic garage door opener using my pi board and smartphone together. This instructable explains how i setup a raspberry pi to open my garage door using a smarthphone. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.

Modify the image as you would like using mac paintbrush. In the image above a high resolution genie garage opener was used a raspberry pi logo was added and the led was removed.