iphone garage door opener


I made a prototype for an iPhone garage door opener. It will also work with anything that has a browser. The Arduino microcontroller is connected to a relay circuit that is connected to the garage door motor. It is wired in just like a regular push button. With the iPhone I browse to a page on my web server and click the garage door button. This makes the garage door open or close with a serial command that is sent from the web server to the microcontroller. Web server: Apache HTTP server 2.2.13 PHP: 5.3 The code is at www.amazingknife.com For details on how to make the relay, look at www.youtube.com and the doorbell videos I’ve posted.

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14 Responses to “iphone garage door opener”

  1. RuthJ180 says:

    @MARVINXELA I am having a problem posting a link to a wifi module. the company is called CuteDigi, Google on that to find the link. You can also search digikey, jameco, and mouser for wifi modules.

  2. RuthJ180 says:

    @MARVINXELA I haven’t used a wifi module with an Arduino yet. There are few modules and they are usually $50 and up. For me it is cheaper to set up a web server on a computer I already have.

  3. MARVINXELA says:

    hi i want to control a circuit by wifi directly, you can help me?, with a list of items to start looking, and I have no experience with wifi, or if you give me anything tutorials addresses will welcome this interesting your project Thanks

  4. yanavery says:

    Wow!

  5. ellpancha says:

    im building up a car alarm with a ARDUNIO MEGA but i cant still resive data form the sensors to mi iphone, cuz i dont know munch about php and web desing, can u helpme?

  6. ellpancha says:

    ok it sounds good, but how abut the php code for that?

  7. RuthJ180 says:

    Would need a door sensor to get info about the door being opened or closed. If there was a door sensor then you could definitely determine what state the door was in.

  8. ellpancha says:

    can you resive data form arduino to leet you know if te door was opened or cosed?

    something like chek the status of the door?

  9. RuthJ180 says:

    It is connected with the USB cable. The Arduino drivers make the USB port act like a COM port. That is how I can send data to the COM port and it will go to the Arduino.

  10. wilddog915 says:

    how is the Arduino connected to the webserver?

  11. RuthJ180 says:

    The web server is on my home network behind the password protected router. So if they figured out the router password then they could open my garage.

  12. Sickshot12 says:

    Also, what if someone accidently stumbled upon your web server? Do you have your iphones IP address whitelisted or something?

  13. Sickshot12 says:

    Pretty soon people will try to do this with their cars.. lol.

  14. zpoley says:

    That’s really cool! Great work!

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