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Garage door detector arduion.
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The most basic sensor and the most passive one is the light sensor.
This sets the garage door opening mechanism into motion letting you through with the a new felt sense of control over your home.
I mounted the 2 switches at each end of the garage door rail.
When you input your password the arduino triggers a relay that acts like a wired garage door remote that you often see next to the internal door.
This door controller is equipped with many different sensors.
A door that is not completely opened or stays open for to long triggers an alarm.
The roost smart garage door sensor is a wi fi connected device that sends a notification to your smartphone communicating the state of your garage door.
The arduino and the unknown sensor will be placed approximately 4 meters from the garage door.
Mesa garage doors has been servicing the los angeles san diego and orange county areas with high quality new garage doors for over 30 years.
The other sensor that is interesting is the bme280.
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.
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.
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On the lcd screen you can see the last movements of your doors.
So shall we get started then.
When a door opens or closes the movements are logged.
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The controller monitors the light level inside the garage and simply reports the information on the website.