Homekit Garage Door Opener Raspberry Pi

I use raspberry pis to run homebridge and control off the shelf devices i have already and also create my own compatible devices that integrate seamlessly with my homekit setup.

Homekit garage door opener raspberry pi.

The two wires from the relay connect to the garage door opener using the screw terminals used by the existing garage door opener wall button. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. 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. 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.

Then wire the relay to the garage door opener. Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1. The two wires from the raspberry pi go to the magnetic switch with half of the switch mounted to the center channel and the other half mounted to the carriage slide with the two sides lined up with the garage door closed. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay. 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. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door.

Homekit garage door openers offer more than just the ability to determine the status of your garage door. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone. Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay. Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones.

We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit. Hardware this summer i decided to explore home automation using a raspberry pi. What we will be doing is turning the raspberry pi into a small web server. These openers can open and close automatically when you arrive or leave your home work in tandem with other devices in automation and of course can work with siri.