I ve decided rather than rewriting my device controller i added multiple virtual interfaces to the raspberry pi.
Webiopi garage door.
You ll want to make sure you are working in the home directory on the pi so at the command prompt enter.
Webiopi garage door opener screen recording.
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Instructions on making your own raspberry pi garage door opener here.
After only writing software for many years in web development creating something that interacts with the real world was a special kind of excitement for me when i saw it work for the first time.
I have a legacy smart home with a bunch of x10 devices so i ve also connected the pi to a cm11a x10 controller.
Internet controlled raspberry pi garage door opener posted on may 20 2013 the purpose of this project is to build a device to control an electric garage door opener and show the status of the door via the web and make it smart phone friendly.
When the relay is triggered it closes the circuit hooked up to the garage motor and opens the garage.
Webiopi interfaced page to control garage remotely over http.
We will wire a very basic circuit to the pi s gpio pins and upload a website that triggers the circuit.
Garage door torsion spring replacement.
A wifi raspberry pi connected to a 2 channel relay connected to my actual garage door remote allows me to open and close my garage door with just a browser on my smartphone.
Webiopi provides a web interface to control the gpio pins on the raspberry pi and thus the garage door opener.
