madchills / smartgaragepi

SmartGaragePi

================= Monitor and control your garage doors from the web via a raspberry Pi.

Overview:

This project provides software and hardware installation instructions for monitoring and controlling your garage doors remotely (via a browser or Rest). The software is designed to run on a Raspberry Pi, which is an inexpensive ARM-based computer

Requirements:

Although you can buy a Raspbery Pi 3, that is definetly overkill for this project. If you have any of the hardware below, I would recommend buying version 1 or 2

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi
• Micro USB charger (1.5A preferable)
• USB WiFi dongle (If connecting wirelessly)
• 8 GB micro SD Card
• Relay Module, 1 channel per garage door (I used SainSmart, but there are other options as well)
• Magnetic Contact Switch (one per garage door)
• Female-to-Female jumper wires (you'll need around 10, or you can just solder)
• 2-conductor electrical wire

Software

• Raspbian
• Python >2.7 (installed with Raspbian)
• Raspberry Pi GPIO Python libs (installed with Raspbian)
• Flask

Hardware Setup:

Step 1: Install the magnetic contact switches:

Software Installation:

1. Install Raspbian onto your Raspberry Pi

   1. Tutorial
   2. Another tutorial
   3. And a video!

2. Configure your WiFi adapter (if necessary).

   • Follow this tutorial
   • or this one

   From here, you'll need to be logged into your RPi (e.g., via SSH).

3. Install the python twisted module (used to stand up the web server):

   sudo apt-get install python-twisted

4. Install the controller application