I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.
Rpi garage door opener web page button.
It was anyway very helpful to understand the concept around dedicated rpi to control a motor from a relay.
My config settings.
When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage.
This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.
I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project.
Raspberry pi garage door opener created by lewis callaway last updated on 2014 03 14 01 30 14 pm edt.
Now when you click the button again the relay will be turned off and the button text will be changed to open again.
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.
I also liked the way the code from the big button page actually worked from a web page.
I had to buy a new garage door opener remote because my old remote s button had disintegrated and no longer worked.
I tapped into the buttons on the wall and ran a pair of wires to the relayboard and connected them to common and normally open.
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.
So now i wondered if we could make this board interact with a raspberry pi so that it could be activated over the network.
We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.
Press open button to switch on the relay or to open the garage door.
No open close buttons no feedback.
Let me relish my small victory for a moment now that we ve cheated our way past the garage door opener next time we can work on data logging and.
I was curious if the board itself could still be activated and sure enough when i hit both pins on the board with a wire the garage door opened.
As soon as you turned on the relay button text will be changed close to turn off the relay.
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.
Raspberry pi garage door opener by quartarian.
Where i started a simple button to command the relay.
A button on a web page opens my garage door.
When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay.