Esp8266 Garage Door

During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse.

Esp8266 garage door.

And it s never been easier for diyers to make their own home automation components. By accessing pin vin we can still get 5v out to supply power to the 5v relay and the garage door remote. You can control anything with your phone nowadays. Esp8266 is coded as web server door can be open everywhere in the world with feedback you will know is the door is open or close in real time simple only one shortcut to make in your phone.

The esp8266 makes this an easy way to set this up in the garage with its low price built in wifi and a lot of gpio. I ll show you how to make a simple way to do a garage door opener. The esp8266 system on a chip soc is a very inexpensive way to make your thing internet connected. Not long ago you had to shop online for smart home gizmos but now even the home improvement stores have a pret.

Esp8266 wifi garage door remote. I used an esp8266 nodemcu with a 5v relay connected normally open directly to the terminals on the back of the garage door opener unit. Nodemcu is powered by a microusb 5v and steps it down to 3 3v for the esp8266. Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.

This is a follow up project to my more expensive smart garage door opener at http hackaday io project 4027 arduino openhab garage door control. We use our garage more like a main entrance to the house because using the actual front entrance tracks a lot of dirt into the house due to the poor layout. 8 thoughts on making a simple door sensor from esp8266 nick b. I played around with lua and micropython on my esp8266 devices but now the tasmota actually allows me to do something useful with a bme280 sensor.

Smart phone wifi controlled garage door opener with esp8266. The garage door remote usually operates with 12v but gets the job done with 5v as well. Smartthings triggers the relay which completes the circuit pushing the garage door opener button. 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.

Everyday when i leave for work i never remember if i closed the garage door. Warning it will oscillate if you fallow the other tutorials i tried the transistor and also using the opto isolator connected to ground but both pull the esp too close to ground it shorts out and will keep resetting itself. Thanks for some really informative articles john. So to eliminate the worry i built this esp8266 based garage door monitor and activator.

Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.