pi-garage

Controlling a garage door through relays & mqtt (for integration with HomeAssistant)

Based on the work of Nickduino / Pi-Somfy https://github.com/Nickduino/Pi-Somfy

There are two ways to run 'Pi-Garage':

1. Regular way (python3 on raspbian as pi-user)
2. Within docker (and using the hosts pigpiod-service)

Regular way

In case you run into errors with dependencies, please check the Pi-Somfy-readme which this project is based on.

Copy pi-garage.service & start service

Copy the pi-garage.service from this project to your user homefolder in '.config/systemd/user/', e.g.: /home/pi/.config/systemd/user/pi-garage.service

You might want to edit the paths if they differ from mine.

Then you might have to reload systemd (user):

systemctl --user daemon-reload

If you want to start the service on boot, run as root:

loginctl enable-linger <user>

Then also enable the service (and start it if you like):

systemctl --user enable pi-garage
systemctl --user start pi-garage

Docker-way:

First, install docker-ce (preferably via the script).

Create user defined network called 'pi-net' using dockernetwork.command-file

bash dockernetwork.command

Build docker-image using dockerbuild.command-file

bash dockerbuild.command

Modify pigpiod-service to only listen to localhost and the docker ip-address

sudo systemctl edit pigpiod

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pigpiod -n localhost -n 172.18.0.2

then daemon-reload systemd and restart the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart pigpiod

Afterwards, you can check using ps -ef if the service is running with the correct arguments.

Start the container using the dockerrun.command-file (only the first time)

bash dockerrun.command

If there is no 'operateGarage.conf' yet, it will be created in the data-folder. You can modify the related GPIO-settings according to your setup.