Put your home on autopilot.
Pi garage door opener homekit.
Step 7 connecting to garage door remote for this step you can either run wires to the actual garage door opener button that s in your garage or use a spare garage door remote.
My centurylink fiber ont and router are also out there so it s a good spot for another little network appliance box.
Insignia s wi fi garage door controller is an affordable way to add homekit support to your existing garage door opener.
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 script took 37 minutes to run on my pi so expect to wait a while.
Configure your garage door opener and camera.
A suitable raspberry pi starter kit i used canakit raspberry pi kit protective case to save your pi board from any accidental damage.
The garage pi is admittedly just using the pi as a linux machine without making any special use of the board.
It runs the homebridge server and controls a few different devices.
A compatible usb wifi adapter or an ethernet cable as per your preference jumper wires female to female micro sd card of 4gb or higher.
Hardware this summer i decided to explore home automation using a raspberry pi.
It can remotely open and close up to three garage doors from iphone ipad mac and apple watch.
Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1.
Ismartgate homekit integrated garage door opener this is a pro homekit garage door opener in many ways.
This device adds apple homekit capability and siri voice control to compatible garage door openers.
Since i planned on leaving the pi indoors where i have easy access to it i chose to hook it up to a remote.
And the feature list doesn t stop at just that.
This low cost package includes everything you need to upgrade including a handy screwdriver which should be the only tool you need for installation.