A home automation friendly esp8266 based mqtt garage door controller.
Esp8266 mqtt garage door.
Let s explore using the esp 01 version of this soc to make our garage door smart.
Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi.
This project allows for up to three dumb garage door openers to be controlled open close and report garage door status open closed occupied via mqtt.
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I just completed a project to build a smartthings connected garage door opener and it s working great.
The esp 01 talks via wifi to an openhab controller that monitors door status as well as sends door open close commands.
During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse.
It responds to hass s open and close commands and reports.
Garhage is almost completely compatible with home assistant s mqtt cover platform.
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.
Esp8266 wifi garage door remote.
Thanks for some really informative articles john.
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My goal was to build something that was as simple as possible and i ended up basing a lot of the code off of this release absolute simplest esp8266 smart blinds no mqtt rest bridge or broker just your board and your hub and just adapting it for a push button instead of an open close.
Garhage allows two dumb garage door openers to be controlled open close and report garage door status open closed via mqtt.
This project uses the esp 01 to control the garage door opener as well as sense when the door is open or closed.
The esp8266 system on a chip soc is a very inexpensive way to make your thing internet connected.
8 thoughts on making a simple door sensor from esp8266 nick b.
In addition if you can also monitor the temperture and humidity within your garage to over mqtt as well.
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.
Esp8266 mqtt garagedoorsensor and temperture homeassistant.