1 remotely control your door anytime and anywhere via an app on the smartphone or tablet.
Sonoff garage door opener.
It is cool but expensive.
Quite troublesome that getting off the car to have your garage door opened when you re arriving home or close it when you re driving off.
An electric soldering iron.
Here sonoff 4chpror2 wifi smart switch is a worthy investment.
It can turn your non smart door lock into a smart wifi door lock.
Much much more compact.
Sonoff sv is a wifi 2g 3g 4g wireless smart switch that supports 5 24v power supply.
Speaking of which a smart garage door will occur in your brain.
In addition to using the sonoff sv to open and close the door i used the gpio 14 pin on the board to add the door sensor to the sonoff sv.
Nodemcu esp8266 chip for door sensor.
Spare remote control for security 2 0 garage door opener sonoff 4 channel pro relay.
It is an absolutely affordable wifi garage door opener that can be triggered to open or close the garage door through your smartphone instead of leaving your car.
This turns the device into a device that will talk to your home automation system not just the phone app that comes with the sonoff devices.
An multimeter an app installed on smart phone or tablet.
Out of the box it does come with tuya smart life firmware but of course we wanted to get rid of that and put open source local control software such as tasmota on it.
Basically you need to connect a usb header device to the sonoff header pins and reflash the esp8266 with the new easyesp image replacing the factory image.