What is it?

This is mashup of this forked project and the hardware & some code from [here] (http://www.tannr.com/2015/01/16/raspberry-pi-garage-door-opener-part-1/)

Spanish version

This script will allow you to communicate directly with your Raspberry Pi using JWCHAT.

You can run it in any device that supports google hangouts

Check the video

How can I install it?

1. Install Python 2.7

sudo apt-get install python-pip git-core python2.7-dev

2. Update easy_install

sudo easy_install -U distribute

3. Install GPIO, xmpppy and pydns modules.

sudo pip install RPi.GPIO xmpppy pydns

4. Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/UlisesGascon/raspi_gtalk_robot.git

5 Enter in the folder.

cd raspi_gtalk_robot

6. Edit raspiBot.py.

sudo nano raspiBot.py

7. Search for (BOT_GTALK_USER, BOT_GTALK_PASS, and BOT_ADMIN) in lines 31-33. Edit them and save all the changes.

raspi_bot_setup

8. Run the script.

sudo python ./raspiBot.py

Main commands:

As mitchtech said in this blog entry:

[garage] : turns pin 18 high and opens the garage door
[pinon|pon|on|high] [pin] : turns on the specified GPIO pin
[pinoff|poff|off|low] [pin] : turns off the specified GPIO pin
[write|w] [pin] [state] : writes specified state to the specified GPIO pin
[read|r] [pin]: reads the value of the specified GPIO pin
[available|online|busy|dnd|away|idle|out|xa] [arg1] : set gtalk state and status message to specified argument
[shell|bash] [arg1] : executes the specified shell command argument after ‘shell’ or ‘bash’

Additional resources

• Raspberry Pi y Google Hangouts (Spanish) by Ulises Gascon
• Raspberry Pi Google Talk Robot (English) by Michael Mitchell