Homekit Garage Door Opener Raspberry Pi

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.

Homekit garage door opener raspberry pi.

Then wire the relay to the garage door opener. Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay. The two wires from the raspberry pi go to the magnetic switch with half of the switch mounted to the center channel and the other half mounted to the carriage slide with the two sides lined up with the garage door closed. 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.

We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.

Smart notifications can alert you to the comings and goings of others or. Homekit garage door openers offer more than just the ability to determine the status of your garage door. The garage pi is admittedly just using the pi as a linux machine without making any special use of the board. The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.

I use raspberry pis to run homebridge and control off the shelf devices i have already and also create my own compatible devices that integrate seamlessly with my homekit setup. 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. What we will be doing is turning the raspberry pi into a small web server.

Hardware this summer i decided to explore home automation using a 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. The two wires from the relay connect to the garage door opener using the screw terminals used by the existing garage door opener wall button. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.