Homemade Garage Door Monitor

Make sure you use a resistor with the led.

Homemade garage door monitor.

For example you could create a garage door monitor by carefully angling a mirror or a series of mirrors that allow you to see if the door is open by just opening the garage door. Then run a wire from the negative lead of the led to the negative lead of the wall transformer. Now its time to take some data. This project uses the nodemcu module.

Of course that all depends on whether or not you have a server a fair amount of coding skills and a few spare parts lying around. An extra remote control for your garage door opener could be mounted inside the house and if the door is open you could use that to close the door. Any monitor will work. Diy garage door sensor scott merrill 11 years.

Three methods are shown below. It has an esp8266 12 as well as power and communications for. Garage door opening was a popular topic for this week s contest. This iot project is designed to create a useful device and also a.

And now thanks to a new instructable i can make my own hey dummy you left your garage door open reminder system. From the switch run a wire to the resistor for your led and then the led. Garage door monitor step 1. Connect a voltmeter set to measure dc volts on the output of the potentiometer and then plug the wall wart into an ac outlet.

Did it decrease as the garage door closed. To find a monitor search online for garage door monitor the brand of your door or opener doesn t matter. Just stick the sensor to the door and set the monitor in a conspicuous spot like your nightstand. We have had a few posts about monitoring your garage door but this one is a little bit different.

A garage door monitor is a good reminder. What you will learn from this project. Another reader stefan sent us entry that accomplishes the same tasks using an android app and an arduino controlled sensor. The build cost 05 and only took an afternoon to complete.