Collaborate Disseminate
[Stephen Carey] had previously relied on an Insteon garage door controller, only to have it perform poorly and fail at integrating with Alexa properly. Thus, he did what any good …read more Continue reading Ultimate Garage Door Control Does The Job Brilliantly
[Scott Prints] had a familiar problem. His garage door opener was boring, and rattled around annoyingly in his car’s center console. This was obviously a major issue that needed to …read more Continue reading Garage Door Opener Ejection Seat
If you live in a home with a garage door opener, you may have experienced one or more inevitable moments. You pull up to your home, you press the button …read more Continue reading IOT Garage Door Opener Makes For Excellent Beginner IOT Project
A few years ago, [Gregory Sanders] aka [Dr Gerg] had one simple wish in mind when he started what is now the PiNet project — to know whether his garage …read more Continue reading PiNet — One Small Project Grows Unexpectedly
[TheStaticTurtle] built a custom controller for automating his garage doors. He wanted to retain the original physical button and RF remote control interfaces while adding a more modern wireless control …read more Continue reading Garage Door Controller Gets The IoT Treatment
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
[yoyotechKnows] built an Alexa-controlled garage door opener after his Liftmaster stopped working. Now all he has to do is holler at his mobile phone and he can raise and lower his garage doors at will.
His project is based around a Photon WiFi kit, with a pair of LCC 120 digital relays triggering the two doors, reed switches, and a serial-equipped LCD to display door status, with Alexa, IFTTT, and OpenHab to process the commands. You can find his code in the project writeup.
Currently he has a LCD display informing him of the status of each door, hot glued …read more
Developer bricked a customer’s device after he complained, raising questions about the reliability of all our IoT devices and their makers Continue reading Open sesame – unless you complain about your ‘smart’ door opener
