Homemade Garage Door Monitor

Three methods are shown below.

Homemade garage door monitor.

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. And now thanks to a new instructable i can make my own hey dummy you left your garage door open reminder system. Just stick the sensor to the door and set the monitor in a conspicuous spot like your nightstand. The build cost 05 and only took an afternoon to complete.

Now its time to take some data. Make sure you use a resistor with the led. From the switch run a wire to the resistor for your led and then the led. Garage door monitor step 1.

Open the garage door and note the voltage on the meter. Connect a voltmeter set to measure dc volts on the output of the potentiometer and then plug the wall wart into an ac outlet. Garage door opening was a popular topic for this week s contest. Did it decrease as the garage door closed.

This project uses the nodemcu module. To find a monitor search online for garage door monitor the brand of your door or opener doesn t matter. A garage door monitor is a good reminder. Any monitor will work.

What you will learn from this project. It has an esp8266 12 as well as power and communications for. We have had a few posts about monitoring your garage door but this one is a little bit different. Then run a wire from the negative lead of the led to the negative lead of the wall transformer.

Close the garage door and note the voltage on the meter. Run the positive lead from the wall transformer to the switch on the garage door. 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. Another reader stefan sent us entry that accomplishes the same tasks using an android app and an arduino controlled sensor.