Use A Sonoff To Open Garage Door

Sonoff garage door opener.

Use a sonoff to open garage door.

2 controlling a garage door motor is not that simple because the motor can be powered to open or close and must not be powered to open and close at same time otherwise the motor will be damaged. Use a nema 5 15p plug with bare wires or cut the cord off of an defective device and strip the two wires. So in essence i had. Homebridge sonoff garage door opener.

I have setup two sonoff basics running tasmota to monitor status and control garage doors. This project involved a modification so i thought it different than normal and. I only need one relay to pull this off. The sonoff s are configured to switchmode 2 pulsetime 10 and switc.

I created this because there wasn t another plugin for sonoff 4ch pro with espeasy with the garage door interface features. Diy a smart remote door lock is a very interesting project. It s easy and it ll cost you a little money. Connect the two wires across the coil of the relay to switch the output.

In addition to this i was using a nodemcu esp8266 to act separately as the garage door sensor. For example instead of getting off your car to open the garage door imagine if you can remotely open your garage door in the car by your smart phone and then directly drive your car into the garage. I have been playing around with the nodemcu devices for some time now but found these sonoff devices about 6 months ago and have made a number of projects with them now. This is a homebridge plugin to connect with a sonoff relay board with espeasy firmware into a garage door opener via the home app on ios using homekit.

Spare remote control for security 2 0 garage door opener. I use two reed relays connected to gpio14 to determine door position closed. I was using a sonoff 4 channel pro relay in my smart garage door project however it was big time overkill.