The reason i wanted this was to be able to close my garage door remotely in case i left it open accidentally.
Esp easy relay garage door.
Garage door control.
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Use your multi meter to check the input of your garage door.
Since the relay i had available contained a 5v coil and the wemos board can only output 3 3v on a digital pin i used a transistor to switch the coil on the relay.
This is what i did.
Controlling your garage doors with an esp32 part 1.
Relays are simple electronics components that allow you to switch a high load using only a single pin on your board.
If this one is too higher than 5v you will have 2 choices.
Simple garage door the following is a possible configuration file for garage doors that are controlled by two relays.
That s all a garage door opener does the wired button you likely have next to the door is a simple momentary switch.
1 make a circuit divider with 2 resistors.
I used an esp8266 nodemcu with a 5v relay connected normally open directly to the terminals on the back of the garage door opener unit.
The garage opener i bought is called boxer 3000 and it seems similar to almost all other openers on the market.
With shelly 1 when leaving home you can easily open and close your garage door without worrying that you may have left it open.
Setting up a garage door opener i recently installed an automatic door opener in my garage and of course i wanted to hook it up to my openhab system.
One press starts or stops the.
Did you forget to close the garage.
On the inside of a relay there is a coil that s connected to the input signal.
Always put the esp8266 gnd to the garage motor operner.
Every time the input signal switches on the current flowing through the coil induces a magnetic field that closes a contact.
When either one of them is turned on for a short period of time the close open action begins.
It has a actually 2 remote controls with one button that controls the opening.
Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi.
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Shelly 1 has operation voltages of 12v and 24 60v dc which allows the control of most garage doors on the market.
2 install a separate magnet switch also attention to the polarity when connecting the relay board to the garage opener.
I added a pull down resistor 10kohm to ensure the pin is low when the board is powered up and the garage door not accidentally opened.
In this instructable we re going to recreate that momentary switch and with esp module make it web enabled.
One for opening and another one for closing the garage door.