Esp8266 Garage Door Sensor

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Esp8266 garage door sensor.

In this project you re going to monitor the status of a door using an esp8266. 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. That s all a garage door opener does the wired button you likely have next to the door is a simple momentary switch. The esp 01 talks via wifi to an openhab controller that monitors door status as well as sends door open close commands.

I ve got a bunch of z wave light switches and plugs in my house and i use openhab as my centralized home automation system. This project uses the esp 01 to control the garage door opener as well as sense when the door is open or closed. So to eliminate the worry i built this esp8266 based garage door monitor and activator. I am so enthusiastic about this software development kit that i going to write a few blogs about this genius software.

In my previous blog here i tested the esp homekit software development kit. Learn programming c javascript jquery the mean stack mongo express angular and node and excel. February 21 2019 at 12 03 am. Thanks for some really informative articles john.

Demo and tutorial on how to control your garage door from your phone using an esp8266 module nodemcu and raspberry pi. In this instructable we re going to recreate that momentary switch and with esp module make it web enabled. Posted on march 7 2016 by austinlightguy. Posted by achim pieters domotica electronics esp8266 homekit software.

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. With the addition of a magnetic door sensor we get the added benefit of knowing whether the door is open or closed. 8 thoughts on making a simple door sensor from esp8266 nick b. Remote esp8266 based garage door sensor.

The goal of this project is to show the endless possibilities that this 4 wifi module offers when integrates with a free platform that i m about to show you.