It worked but left a lot of room for improvement.
Blynk garage door.
I used adafruit esp8266 breakout version because it has wifi.
Original idea was to have a garage door sensor visible through phone app and also send notification when the door opens and closes.
Raspberry pi zero garage door opener using blynk.
The internal resistor of the esp8266 works very well for a magnetic switch attached to garage door when the door is open or close blynk notifies me basically that is the only purpose of this switch but very important to know if the door is open or close.
Ever lose a garage door opener and looked for a replacement on amazon.
Iot door sensor project description.
The terminal screen will display the last 25 times the door was activated by blynk the.
Get the files for this project.
For this project i designed an opensource universal garage door opener based on esp8266 and the blynk app.
A chart displays the history of the door activity temperature humidity and wifi signal from the last hour to the previous 3 months.
A while back i created a smartphone garage door opener.
I was also surprised to learn that you can open the garage door from anywhere you have internet access on your phone through the blynk app.
Iot garage door opener using blynk and particle photon.
I wrongly assumed that it only worked when you where on your home wifi that the photon was connected to.
It supports a builtin web interface implemented using embedded htmls and jquery mobile.
This is my first project.
So i created a new version of it and its much better.
Iot door sensor reed switch based security system using nodemcu esp8266 in this tutorial.
The replacements for my garage door were 20 30.
You will learn how to make an iot based door security system using a magnetic reed switch nodemcu esp8266 wifi module and blynk application each time the door is opened or closed a notification message is sent to the desired application.
The controller uses a distance sensor to detect garage door status and a relay to trigger garage door button clicks.