Pi Garage Door Opener

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.

Pi garage door opener. 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. A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage. Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground. With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.

We will provide a writing estimate and all our services comes with a warranty. 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 two left most terminals are to control the door. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.

When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage. And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone. Look up your brand and see where your connections should go. If you connect the relay to this terminal directly and mount the raspberry pi in the garage you won t need a remote.

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. 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 relay should be wired in the normally open position so that when activated the circuit will close and the garage door will open close. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.

Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.

Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin 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. 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. Then wire the relay to the garage door opener.

Its very simple to open up one you already have and connect it to this project. I recommend purchasing a new one for around 30 at home depot programming it and then taking apart your old one.