Homekit Garage Door Opener Raspberry Pi

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Homekit garage door opener raspberry pi.

Homekit garage door openers offer more than just the ability to determine the status of your garage door. The hardware is cheap and i ve packaged the software up in a. 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. Today i will discuss the same with you.

One image is the background remote background jpg and the other is the active image remote press jpg. Smart notifications can alert you to the comings and goings of others or. Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1. These openers can open and close automatically when you arrive or leave your home work in tandem with other devices in automation and of course can work with siri.

They offer a 70 box that will bridge this into homekit but why pay 70 when you can do it for free with homebridge. Use three wires to connect the relay to the raspberry pi. The raspberry pi 3 b is. I have a liftmaster garage door opener with their myq wifi feature.

But since the first raspberry pi launched in 2012 i started tinkering to make an automatic garage door opener using my pi board and smartphone together. Connect vcc to dc power 5v pin 04 connect gnd to ground pin 06 connect in1 to gpio 05 pin 29 connect two more wires to the raspberry pi one to gpio 20 pin 38 and the other to dc power 3 3v pin 17. These two wires will go to the garage door opener. In the image above a high resolution genie garage opener was used a raspberry pi logo was added and the led was removed.

Hardware this summer i decided to explore home automation using a raspberry pi. I used the homebridge camera ffmpeg plugin to handle transcoding the video and letting it stream via homekit. First of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi. I thought that it would be fun to control my garage door with siri ios homekit and spent some time building a basic controller using javascript and some nice node js packages.

I ve written enough software and played with a raspberry pi long enough that this was a fairly simple project. Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github. Grab a high resolution remote garage door opener from the web.