Integrate with another system utilizing the simple rest api.
Rpi jessie web page button for garage door.
No open close buttons no feedback.
In this tutorial i will show you how to open and close your garage door over the internet using a raspberry pi relay and web io pi.
Raspberry pi garage door opener with garagepi by chase chou.
There s even a webcam attached to the pi so you can rest assured that the door is really closed.
Sudo update rc d webiopi defaults as a side note you can start stop the background service by doing.
If that worked then you can make garagepi run at startup.
Flask setup in raspberry pi for controlling garage door.
I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.
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.
Get a project box like this one and enclose everything nicely.
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Web server port 80.
So now i wondered if we could make this board interact with a raspberry pi so that it could be activated over the network.
Same kind of setup but.
Get a magnetic contact switch like this and use rpio to detect if the door is open or closed.
The cabling i use now is still the same for the command part.
It was anyway very helpful to understand the concept around dedicated rpi to control a motor from a relay.
At this point you should be able to hit the open and close button to control your garage door.
Now navigate to your ip address in your mobile browser by typing http 192 168 1 183.
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Flask allows us to run our python scripts through a webpage and we can send receive data from raspberry pi to web browser and.
My config settings.
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Have you ever forgotten to close your garage door and remembered to shut it later.
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.
Once this is done the webserver will work from the internet.
You should see the very simple web ui that can be used to control your garage door.
Where i started a simple button to command the relay.
Clicking the button on this page should act as if you were pushing the button on your garage door remote.
This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.
Here we have created a web server using flask which provides a way to send the commands from webpage to raspberry pi to control the robot over the network.
Sudo etc init d webiopi start sudo etc init d webiopi stop.