Esp8266 Garage Door Opener Smartthings

Why my fourth try.

Esp8266 garage door opener smartthings. This is my fourth and final code to control window blinds in smartthings with a nodemcu esp8266 chip and a servo. It s a fairly new requirement since 2015 and it s specifically intended to apply to openers that can be used out of sight of the garage door. 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. Control your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with the smartthings app for iphone or android.

Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial. But at the end of every attempt i still had the same. Warning if using an esp8266 make sure you are using v2 5 2 of the arduino esp8266 board manager v2 4 2 4 1 introduced a memory leak causing st anythign to crash after an hour or two along with. 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.

In looking at the works with smartthings page it seems that there isn t an opener that inherently connects to smartthings as there are only 2 add on devices that connect to it gocontrol and iris. Without hub connected device documentation from samsung smartthings i have no way to know how to support the new smartthings connect app. Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github. Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.

The reason i wanted this was to be able to close my garage door remotely in case i left it open accidentally. What s interesting is that my garage door opener doesn t meet those requirements when it is activated remotely using the rf remote fob that comes with it. During the rainy season here on the west coast of canada it s even worse. Esp8266 wifi garage door remote.

Receive alerts from smartthings if your gocontrol garage door opener detects that your garage door has been left open for too long or opened unexpectedly. Meross smart garage door opener remote app control compatible with alexa google assistant and smartthings multiple notification modes no hub needed upgrade version white 4 5 out of 5 stars 535 49 99 49. The gocontrol linear z wave garage door opener remote controller is a no frills option for those with a z wave smart home but it s not a good choice if you just want to open and close your.