Gpio Python Garage Door

Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.

Gpio python garage door. Instead open a terminal navigate cd to where you saved the file and do replacing doors py with your script filename sudo python doors py. It will control up to 4 garage doors with the current config but can be expanded to more. When i think of home automation with a raspberry pi controlling my garage door is the first project that comes to mind. Import rpi gpio as gpio from flask import flask render template request app flask name static url path static now create a dictionary as pins to store the pin number name and pin.

My garage door remote uses the cr2032 battery which is 3 3v and coincidentally the raspberry pi. My config settings. It comes with all the code parts list wiring diagram and instructions. This will begin running the script.

Documentation usage gpio python gpio in python. If all is successful you should see this whilst pushing and pulling the door sensors closer away from each other. Just download the python script and follow the instructions. The second one written originally in python and later converted into node js enables using a raspberry pi camera module to visually inspect the garage door along with a gpio controlled 2 channel relay soldered on to a garage door opener remote to open and close the door via an intranet web app.

Will work with any mqtt setup including openhab. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. 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. Start the bluetooth interface which off by default.

Yum update yum install net tools bluez pybluez python rpi gpio python psutil. To control an led connected to gpio17 you can use this code. Led on sleep 1 led off sleep 1. Take a look at node garagepi if you prefer node js to python and how you can replace the battery in the garage remote.

So i decided to build this myself. The only limitation is the number of available gpio ports. If you don t need x you can remove with. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.

Raspberry pi 3 garage door opener. Configuring bluetooth on pidora. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a. 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.

Mkdir garage door cd garage door nano app py. This will open the nano editor where we have to write the script. Using the gpio zero library makes it easy to get started with controlling gpio devices with python. Yum remove xorg x11 reboot the system.

Start by including important libraries.