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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.

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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