House Alarm with a Pi: The Smart Door

Written by NimbleArchitect | Published 2019/11/13
Tech Story Tags: python | raspberry-pi | breadboard-engineering | smarthome | latest-tech-stories | schematic-diagram | electric-circuit | smart-devices

TLDR A DevOps engineer who loves automation, programming and electronics decided to build a sensor for the front door. He wanted to be able to detect whether the door is open or closed. After a heavy research session that left my head fuzzy and spinning, I finally had enough information to start planning how the design would work in practice. The basic door and window sensors use a reed switch and act just like a light switch, except these switches use magnets to control whether they are on or off rather than using a human finger. For my system I decided that a normally closed sensor would be the better choice.via the TL;DR App

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Written by NimbleArchitect | A DevOps engineer who loves automation, programming and electronics.
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/11/13