Pi Garage Manager

Docker container with a Raspberry Pi Python script to email or send an SMS (IFTTT) if a garage door is left open. It can also trigger the garage door to open/close.

QUICK START

BASIC RASPBERRY PI SETUP Equipment required

• Raspberry Pi model A or B
• 2GB or larger SD card
• Magnetic sensor (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Stainless-Security-Magnetic-Contact/dp/B005DJLILI/ref=sr_1_10)*
• USB wifi adapter (if not using Ethernet)
• USB power supply for RPi (https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY/ref=sr_1_4)
• 2 channel relay (https://www.amazon.com/SunFounder-Channel-Optocoupler-Expansion-Raspberry/dp/B00E0NTPP4/ref=sr_1_1)
• Female to female jumper cables (https://www.amazon.com/40pcs-Female-2-54mm-Jumper-2x40pcs/dp/B00GSE2S98/ref=sr_1_4)

RASPBERRY PI INITIAL SETUP

• Follow the guide at http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup to write the Raspbian image to the SD card.
• Boot the RPi and at raspi-config, expand the filesystem, set the "pi" account password, and enable SSH.
• Reboot the Raspberry Pi
• Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and configure the RPi to connect to your wifi network.
• Run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
• Run sudo apt install git

PI GARAGE MANAGER WIRING DIAGRAMS

• Check out the wiki for the wiring diagrams - https://github.com/jnk5y/pi_garage_manager/wiki

RUNNING PI_GARAGE_MANAGER

• sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev libffi-dev
• sudo easy_install pip
• sudo pip install requests
• sudo pip install requests[security]
• sudo pip install httplib2
• Edit the etc/pi_garage_manager_config.py file
  • Modify the alert section to suit your alerting needs
  • Add your firebase key
• Run the install.sh script sudo bash ./install.sh
  • The install script will copy bin/pi_garage_manager.py to /usr/local/sbin, etc/pi_garage_manager_config.py to /usr/local/etc, init.d/pi_garage_manager to /etc/init.d and make pi_garage_manager.py start on startup
• To run the pi_garage_manager service run sudo service pi_garage_manager start
• At this point, the Pi Garage Manager software should be running. You can view its log in /var/log/pi_garage_manager.log. You can use the garage_trigger.py script found in bin/ to send commands to the service to open/close the garage door.

Thanks to:

• Shane Rowley - https://github.com/smrowley

• Rich Lynch - https://www.richlynch.com/2013/07/27/pi_garage_alert_1/

• Driscocity's Idiot's Guide - http://www.driscocity.com/idiots-guide-to-a-raspberry-pi-garage-door-opener/