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.
Pi garage door opener.
Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay.
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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.
If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.
If you connect the relay to this terminal directly and mount the raspberry pi in the garage you won t need a remote.
I recommend purchasing a new one for around 30 at home depot programming it and then taking apart your old one.
And the next two are the safety sensors which i left alone.
When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage.
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.
My garage door opener comes with 4 terminals.
The two left most terminals are to control the door.
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Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.
Raspberry pi garage door opener first of all let s see which things you should need to create an automatic garage door opener using raspberry pi.
Look up your brand and see where your connections should go.
Then wire the relay to the 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.
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With a magnet attached to the garage door the pi relies on two magnetic reed switches to check the garage door s status.
Steve placed one sensor near the ceiling and the other is on the ground.
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The garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014.
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.
When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay.
