Homekit Garage Door Opener Raspberry Pi

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.

Homekit garage door opener raspberry pi. 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. 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. Smart notifications can alert you to the comings and goings of others or. Building a siri ios homekit enabled garage door control with raspberry pi part 1.

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 garage door has been in continuous use since late 2014. 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. If the garage door is open when it shouldn t be then send a text message sms to a cell phone.

Opening and closing the door is secured by using self signed certificates installed on family s mobile phones. Homekit garage door openers offer more than just the ability to determine the status of your garage door. Use a raspberry pi and a smartphone to open close and monitor a garage door. 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.

Wire pin 2 5v on the pi to the vcc pin on the relay. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. When you access the webserver from your browser of choice you will have a big button that triggers the garage door via a relay. Then wire pin 6 gnd to the gnd on the relay.

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. 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. 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.