Esp8266 Garage Door

Smart phone wifi controlled garage door opener with esp8266.

Esp8266 garage door.

I ll show you how to make a simple way to do a garage door opener. 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. Smartthings triggers the relay which completes the circuit pushing the garage door opener button. Esp8266 garage door opener.

Nodemcu is powered by a microusb 5v and steps it down to 3 3v for the esp8266. 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. 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. Let s explore using the esp 01 version of this soc to make our garage door smart.

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. Everyday when i leave for work i never remember if i closed the garage door. During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse. 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.

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. Not long ago you had to shop online for smart home gizmos but now even the home improvement stores have a pret. Thanks for some really informative articles john. 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.

8 thoughts on making a simple door sensor from esp8266 nick b. February 21 2019 at 12 03 am. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on. 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.

Esp8266 wifi garage door remote. The garage door remote usually operates with 12v but gets the job done with 5v as well. 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. You can control anything with your phone nowadays.

By accessing pin vin we can still get 5v out to supply power to the 5v relay and the garage door remote.