IOT Garage Door Opener Makes For Excellent Beginner IOT Project

If you reside in a property with a garage door opener, you may have skilled 1 or far more unavoidable times. You pull up to your home, you push the button on the garage doorway opener, and… nothing. Or you can’t locate the garage door opener. Or you have to mash the button frequently to get a response. Or… you get the strategy. Thanks to [Core Electronics] however, you now have the basis for employing a much greater device to handle your own garage doorway: Your mobile phone. You can see the tutorial on the world-wide-web or in video clip format underneath the split.

[Michael] at [Core electronics] was drained of working with the inconsistencies and inconveniences of a improperly designed remote for his garage doorway opener. When he inspected the controller board on the garage door opener by itself, he located that it was previously configured to allow three buttons to be related: Up, Down, and Prevent.

Acknowledging that a MOSFET can be configured as a change, [Michael] built a circuit with three such devices and then related them to the Raspberry Pi Pico W. Some MicroPython code does the needful, and now [Michael] can entry the controls from a web-site on his phone. Nifty!

We also appreciated that the tutorial offers a whole see of the job so that a commencing hacker can come to a decision whether or not this is the undertaking for them, and it discusses some of the safety aspects of earning your garage door and IOT machine. Properly carried out!

Supplied the warnings in the movie, we marvel if [Michael] also observed the Hackaday posting “The Trials And Tribulations of Building An IOT Garage Door Opener” from 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/view?v=bIBQKl_Sots

Thanks to [Graham] for the terrific suggestion!