Homemade Garage Door Monitor

Now its time to take some data.

Homemade garage door monitor.

An extra remote control for your garage door opener could be mounted inside the house and if the door is open you could use that to close the door. Just stick the sensor to the door and set the monitor in a conspicuous spot like your nightstand. Garage door opening was a popular topic for this week s contest. For example you could create a garage door monitor by carefully angling a mirror or a series of mirrors that allow you to see if the door is open by just opening the garage door.

Close the garage door and note the voltage on the meter. A garage door monitor is a good reminder. Then run a wire from the negative lead of the led to the negative lead of the wall transformer. Run the positive lead from the wall transformer to the switch on the garage door.

Diy garage door sensor scott merrill 11 years. This iot project is designed to create a useful device and also a. What you will learn from this project. Any monitor will work.

From the switch run a wire to the resistor for your led and then the led. Three methods are shown below. Make sure you use a resistor with the led. It has an esp8266 12 as well as power and communications for.

Of course that all depends on whether or not you have a server a fair amount of coding skills and a few spare parts lying around. Connect a voltmeter set to measure dc volts on the output of the potentiometer and then plug the wall wart into an ac outlet. And now thanks to a new instructable i can make my own hey dummy you left your garage door open reminder system. To find a monitor search online for garage door monitor the brand of your door or opener doesn t matter.

We have had a few posts about monitoring your garage door but this one is a little bit different. Garage door monitor step 1. Open the garage door and note the voltage on the meter. Another reader stefan sent us entry that accomplishes the same tasks using an android app and an arduino controlled sensor.