My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals.
Pi garage door opener.
The green 4 pin thing in the diagram is just a representation of what my connection looks like yours may be different.
Its very simple to open up one you already have and connect it to this project.
And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.
With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
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.
If you connect the relay to this terminal directly and mount the raspberry pi in the garage you won t need a remote.
When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage.
Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.
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We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.
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.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
Look up your brand and see where your connections should go.
The two left most terminals are to control the door.
Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground.
Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.
A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage.
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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.
I recommend purchasing a new one for around 30 at home depot programming it and then taking apart your old one.
Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
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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.
