{"id":12971,"date":"2017-01-16T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:50:50","slug":"esp8266-garage-door-opener-data-logger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/esp8266-garage-door-opener-data-logger\/","title":{"rendered":"ESP8266 garage door opener and data logger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiskeytangohotel.com\/2017\/01\/esp8266-wifi-garage-door-opener-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">ESP8266 controlled garage door opener<\/a><\/strong> activates the garage switch via commands send over an web browser.\u00a0In addition, it also records the activities to a Google Sheet using\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/maker\" target=\"_blank\">IFTTT.com <\/a>services.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12973\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ESP8266_GarDoor_on_PCB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12973\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12973\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ESP8266_GarDoor_on_PCB.jpeg\" alt=\"ESP8266 garage door opener\" width=\"800\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ESP8266_GarDoor_on_PCB.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ESP8266_GarDoor_on_PCB-580x608.jpeg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESP8266 garage door opener<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>There seems to be an unstoppable drive in the hacker DIY community for web based garage door openers and we were compelled to respond.\u00a0 The garage door opener we have opens\/shuts from a push button switch that basically creates a short to connect two terminals on the garage door opening unit.\u00a0 That allows easy implementation because all that is required is a ESP8266 controlled relay wired across those two terminals to create a switch closure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ESP8266 controlled garage door opener activates the garage switch via commands send over an web browser.\u00a0In addition, it also records the activities to a Google Sheet using\u00a0the IFTTT.com services. There seems to be an unstoppable drive in the hacker DIY community for web based garage door openers and we were compelled to respond.\u00a0 The garage door opener we have opens\/shuts from a push button switch that basically creates a short to connect two terminals on the garage door opening unit.\u00a0 That allows easy implementation because all that is required is a ESP8266 controlled relay wired across those two terminals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,958],"tags":[1604,801],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esp8266","category-internet-of-things","tag-esp8266-logger","tag-garage-door-opener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12974,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}