Photon Particle Setup Garage Door

The first photon was used to control the door closing and opening.

Photon particle setup garage door.

With this setup you can continue to control your garage door even when you are not at home. This tutorial uses a particle photon to control a relay for the garage door. While it s an unlikely scenario it s not so far fetched to not provide a solution. If you did anytime that the power went out to your particle core the garage door would open.

The wifi on the photon is causing some noise and not allowing our garage door opener to work. In addition i am creating some particle variables and functions so i can a monitor the status location of the door and b send the photon button press commands from the particle console cli command line. I had some problems when i moved in when my wife put a cfl in and her opener worked and mine did not i have an older car. While the second was used to notify us when the garage door was open or closed.

Bring power back to the garage door opener and to your photon and test. The photon itself will run you about 20 and the rest of the parts for a single door will probably set you back another 10. Cut one small length of wire and bridge the two relays on their common pin. For less than the price of a new remote you can follow yoyoknows s guide and get a complete iot garage door system up and running.

Once it is wired according to the circuit diagram and in parallel with your garage door button your push button switch on your smartphone will control the garage just as your wall switch does. This will allow you to know what state the garage door is in closed door opening open door closing instead of just closed or open.