Garage Automation Project – Further Update
As I said below in the last Raspberry Pi post, this project will never really be over. A while ago, the Logitech Web Cam attached to the PI Model B assigned to door opener duties (which gave images of the …
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Garage Automation Project – near as dammit complete!
The History I looked back at previous posts and it appears I have been working on this project for nearly 3 years! The first part, being able to open the garage doors using wifi from a browser on my phone, …
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Raspberry PI and Raspbian Lite Buster
The tiny computer projects to control garage doors and display webcam images has moved on a bit, and I have added two new tiny computers into the network. The first feature I wanted to add was an access to the …
Garage Door Opener – a tinier computer project
Despite the issues with bricking the device and it recovering itself in a random state, I decided to go with what I had rather than risk bricking it again. This caused a few issues, but I can live with them. …
Garage Door opener – intermission
The last post about Garage Door openers detailed the building of the garage door opener, but blurs the time line of events a bit. Initially I got the opener working fine, and it worked well for a few days, but …
Garage door opener – tiny computer project
Recently we had two new garage doors installed, to replace very old clunky things. The new doors are sectional, insulated and have brand new automatic openers. They are draft free and the temperature in the workshop is a few degrees …
Raspberry PI 2 – nearly there!
Last week I got the Kore remote app working on my phone and my tablet, and I thought that was clever. Over the weekend I plugged in a Microsoft Media Center IR and used the Media Center remote, with no …
Raspberry Pi 2 – installed and running
The Pi 2 in its beautiful case has been installed behind the TV to replace the PI 1, OSMC fired up, install completed, and the few set up tasks needed were done. The wireless settings didn’t install automatically from the …
Raspberry Pi – media centre
With winter coming, I wanted an entertainment system in the room with the big warm fire in. The TV is a small 24″ Samsung flat screen, with terrible speakers, a nice picture and good Freeview reception, but no recording device …
Raspberry Pi at the shop
The Pi has been on hold for a while, while we get the shop up and running. I did some work on a slideshow so that I could connect it up to a flat screen TV and show pictures of …