Speaking of which a smart garage door will occur in your brain.
Sonoff basic garage door opener.
One option we picked up was using the sonoff sv to try but as an alternative the moes version of the garage door opener is easy to install.
It s easy and it ll cost you a little money.
It is an absolutely affordable wifi garage door opener that can be triggered to open or close the garage door through your smartphone instead of leaving your car.
Now solder a jumper across the input and take a usb connector and leave the a side on and connect it to the and terminals labelled in the picture below.
I use two reed relays connected to gpio14 to determine door position closed.
Sonoff garage door opener step 1.
Quite troublesome that getting off the car to have your garage door opened when you re arriving home or close it when you re driving off.
The sonoff s are configured to switchmode 2 pulsetime 10 and switc.
Here sonoff 4chpror2 wifi smart switch is a worthy investment.
A switch to configure the relay.
Modifying the sonoff rf r2 power.
A small cut using a dremel or hack saw is cut down the side of the relay disconnecting the relay.
Out of the box it does come with tuya smart life firmware but of course we wanted to get rid of that and put open source local control software such as tasmota on it.
It is cool but expensive.
I am not an electrical engineer and do not pretend to play one on the internet.
Espeasy flashing the.
I have setup two sonoff basics running tasmota to monitor status and control garage doors.
Sonoff sv is a wifi 2g 3g 4g wireless smart switch that supports 5 24v power supply.
Esphome creating the software.
Moes garage door opener on amazon.
These devices can be purchased from aliexpress for a few dollars looking at.
Starting with the sonoff device.
Follow up converting sonoff basic v2 for a garage door opener zemismart anniversary sale on aliexpress and my plans for future tuya videos.
All you need is a cheap electromagnetic lock a low cost sonoff sv and a power plug.
Cheap smart garage door opener step 1.
Remove the two resistors to the right of the input.
Diy a smart remote door lock is a very interesting project.