priestd09 / rpi-switch

Raspberry Pi remote switch

This is a small app running on Raspberry Pi as s remote switch for garage doors. The RPI is connected to home Wifi that is accessible outside the house as well. Any mobile phone/pc that hasve access to home Wifi can access RPIs website and open / close the garage doors. No more specific garage doors remote control is required :)

Prerequisities

• a garage doors motor with connector to manual control like Hormann etc
• Raspberry Pi with a connection to home wifi
• Relay module to control the doors motor like this one https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13815

Software used

• standard Raspberry's Raspian image up to date
• connection to Wifi configured
• WebIOPi from http://webiopi.trouch.com/INSTALL.html

Configuration

• connect the relay module to RPI's GPIO pin 2
• Udpate /etc/webiopi/config to direct to custom web page like doc-root=/home/pi/WebIOPi-0.7.0/mydoors
• Copy index.html to /home/pi/WebIOPi-0.7.0/mydoors and customize IO pin number where is relay connected
• If relay pin connected to an another pin, udpate index.html to right pin number

Security

• the RPI is conneted to homes Wifi that is considered secure
• if additional security is required, customize RPIs web server to introduce aditional authentication
• cusotmize RPIs transport protocol to use SSL/https to make secure trasfer if possible
• if paranoic with home security, install VPN server to RPI and connect only clients with the VPN setup can access the garage doors

TBD

• connect camera to broadcast image of the garage door to check if open / closed
• integartion to an home automation system / dashboard

Image gallery from my installation

https://goo.gl/photos/6mYRy5UKS8qQs6747