Esp8266 wifi garage door remote.
Esp2866 garage door.
We use our garage more like a main entrance to the house because using the actual front entrance tracks a lot of dirt into the house due to the poor layout.
By accessing pin vin we can still get 5v out to supply power to the 5v relay and the garage door remote.
So to eliminate the worry i built this esp8266 based garage door monitor and activator.
Nodemcu is powered by a microusb 5v and steps it down to 3 3v for the esp8266.
And it s never been easier for diyers to make their own home automation components.
During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse.
8 thoughts on making a simple door sensor from esp8266 nick b.
Not long ago you had to shop online for smart home gizmos but now even the home improvement stores have a pret.
The esp 01 talks via wifi to an openhab controller that monitors door status as well as sends door open close commands.
Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github.
Garage door opener with feedback using esp8266 as web server.
This project uses the esp 01 to control the garage door opener as well as sense when the door is open or closed.
The esp8266 makes this an easy way to set this up in the garage with its low price built in wifi and a lot of gpio.
Esp8266 garage door opener.
You can control anything with your phone nowadays.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
Smart phone wifi controlled garage door opener with esp8266.
I played around with lua and micropython on my esp8266 devices but now the tasmota actually allows me to do something useful with a bme280 sensor.
The garage door remote usually operates with 12v but gets the job done with 5v as well.
Thanks for some really informative articles john.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
Warning it will oscillate if you fallow the other tutorials i tried the transistor and also using the opto isolator connected to ground but both pull the esp too close to ground it shorts out and will keep resetting itself.
I like the adafruit huzza esp8266 vs a bare esp 01 with its on board 3 3v regulator 0 1 pin pitch and gpio0 button.