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Home automation projects have been popular as long as microcontrollers have been available to the general public. Building computers to handle minutiae so we don’t have to is one of …read more Continue reading Garage Door Automation With No Extra Hardware
Probably the last thing anyone wants when coming home from a long day at work or a trip is to be hassled at the last possible moment — gaining entrance …read more Continue reading Does Getting Into Your Garage Really Need to Be Difficult?
Hacker can remotely open or close garage doors, seize control of alarms, and switch on (or switch off) customers’ “smart” plugs due to vulnerabilities in Nexx products. Continue reading Own a Nexx “smart” alarm or garage door opener? Get rid of it
[Glen] might describe his project of opening his garage door by way of an RFID sticker on his bike helmet as simple, but some of the interfacing he needed to …read more Continue reading RFID Sticker on Bike Helmet Grants Garage Access
For devices that are destined for momentary and infrequent use as well as battery power, some kind of power saving is pretty much a required feature. For example, when [PJ …read more Continue reading USB Power Bank’s Auto-Off Becomes Useful Feature In Garage Door Remote
It’s getting into the hot summer months for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and for many Hackaday readers, that means its time to get the old window air …read more Continue reading Hacked AC Window Unit Split in Half to Cool the Garage
The ESP8266 is a great processor for a lot of projects needing a small microcontroller and Wi-Fi, all for a reasonable price and in some pretty small form factors. [Simon] used one to build a garage door opener. This project isn’t really about his garage door opener based on a …read more
Continue reading Four Years Of Learning ESP8266 Development Went Into This Guide
Garage doors can be frustrating things, being a chore to open manually and all. Many people opt to install a motorized opener, but for some, even this isn’t enough. Hooking up a garage door to the Internet of Things has long been a popular project, and [Simon Ludborzs] decided to …read more
Continue reading The Trials And Tribulations Of Building An IOT Garage Door Opener
Today’s story is one of victory and defeat, of mystery and adventure… It’s time to automate the garage door. Connecting the garage door to the internet was a must on my list of smart home features. Our opener has internet connection capabilities built-in. As you might guess, I’m very skeptical of connecting a device to the internet when I have no control over the software running on it.
The garage door is controlled by a button hung on the garage wall. There is only a pair of wires, so a simple relay should be all that is needed to simulate …read more
Continue reading Hack My House: Garage Door Cryptography Meets Raspberry Pi
The maker of an Internet of Things (IoT) garage door opener bricked a customer’s device after they posted a negative review on the product’s forum board.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Leave a bad review? This IoT garage door opener maker may brick your device