I use two reed relays connected to gpio14 to determine door position closed.
Sonoff to control garage door.
During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse.
Nodemcu esp8266 chip for door sensor.
I have setup two sonoff basics running tasmota to monitor status and control garage doors.
Spare remote control for security 2 0 garage door opener sonoff 4 channel pro relay.
This project involved a modification so i thought it different than normal and.
Sonoff garage door opener.
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.
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.
The sonoff s are configured to switchmode 2 pulsetime 10 and switc.
An electric soldering iron.
An multimeter an app installed on smart phone or tablet.
Sonoff sv is a wifi 2g 3g 4g wireless smart switch that supports 5 24v power supply.
Much much more compact.
It can turn your non smart door lock into a smart wifi door lock.
Directly check how to achieve it in the infographic or you can refer to the following operating and setting methods for detailed guidance.
3 you must set the sonoff to interlock mode so that when the garage door motor is powered to open then any power to close is disconnected.
In addition to using the sonoff sv to open and close the door i used the gpio 14 pin on the board to add the door sensor to the sonoff sv.
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.
1 remotely control your door anytime.