Garage Door Detector Arduion

Please note that this item not fit to iron door it will decline magnetic of the sensor.

Garage door detector arduion. I ll do a quick overview on how it works and show a project example using an arduino. The arduino and the unknown sensor will be placed approximately 4 meters from the garage door. I mounted the 2 switches at each end of the garage door rail. This tutorial demonstrates how to use a magnetic reed switch.

I used the standard arduino uno rev 3 board as i didn t need network capability. But this was complete overkil so in the end i settled on 2 colour high intensity 3 watt led that could be mounted outside our kitchen window and be driven by a cable. The garage door is closed as high on the arduino the closed door sensor is connected to the no pin and the fully open sensor is connected to the nc pin on the switches. On the lcd screen you can see the last movements of your doors.

Roost sensor lets you know if you left your garage open. This project monitors two garage doors. One sender unit mounted on the garage door and a receiver unit that sat inside with an indicator light with rf comms using one of the many different types of arduino rf shields. Sensor i started with the inexpensive sr 501 ultrasonic sensor i bought from china for 5.

Mc 38 wired door window sensor magnetic switch home alarm system detector it can be connected to esp8266 to control the garage door. The roost smart garage door sensor unveiled at ces 2018 will let you know if the door is open or closed. Since i wanted to sense the normal state i e. I ve kept the code simple to only address the logic required for this function.

This is the basic control code. The actual device that i built uses an rf receiver to pickup garage door state messages from my garage door controller circuit. This was a mistake as these cheap sensors did not have adequate range and could not deal with the changing cross section of the car as it approached the sensor. When a door opens or closes the movements are logged.

Power i thought about using one of those usb charger wall warts to supply 5v to the.