Openhab Raspberry Pi Garage Door

Hi all i just finished packaging up a simple solution for controlling your garage doors using a raspberry pi.

Openhab raspberry pi garage door.

If you want to learn more about the possibilities of the raspberry pi and linux in general many tutorials can be found on the internet. Here is my garage door hardware. It will control up to 4 garage doors. All raspberry pi projects require some type of setup.

With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status. Raspberry pi relay garage door remote controller and z wave door sensor and some python code. Install wiring pi. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.

Install and optimize rasbian for our purposes. Relay attached to pi connected to garage wireless remote. Just download the python script and follow the instructions. No need to wire anything in the garage.

Will work with any mqtt setup including openhab. 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. This will allow us. 172 00 step 2.

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. It is favored amongst existing users and a recommended choice for newcomers. All activity is monitored and logged using the raspberry pi. Because of its low price its small form factor and the low energy consumption the raspberry pi is a quite popular platform for openhab.

Door sensor installed on garage door reports open close status. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall. Buy or gather parts and tools prices in usd. Setup raspberry pi without monitor or keyboard.

Bought at fry s for 4 95. My config settings. It comes with all the code parts list wiring diagram and instructions. The next step is to setup your wifi from the command line.

Raspberry pi garage door opener step 1. Works with any model i have it running on an original rpi 1. 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.