garage-service

A simple hack, to remotely open a garage.

This code is a Discord bot that allows you to control a garage door using a Raspberry Pi. When the bot receives a message, it will attempt to open the garage door by triggering a low signal on the specified output pin for 1 second and then returning it to a high signal.

Setup

1. Get a Raspberry pi and install a simple OS. I'm using Ubuntu

2. Connect the output pin specified in the OUTPUT_PIN variable to your garage door opener circuit

3. Create a Discord bot (see this on how to create a bot)

4. Clone the project somewhere

5. Create a .env file in the root directory of the project and set the DISCORD_TOKEN environment variable to your Discord bot's token.

   DISCORD_TOKEN=<discord bot token>

6. Run the script with python3 main.py and test by sending any message to the bot

7. Install as systemd service

   sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/garage.service
   

   add the content of the garage.service file to the file and save it

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo systemctl enable garage
   sudo systemctl start garage