In addition to using the sonoff sv to open and close the door i used the gpio 14 pin on the board to add the door sensor to the sonoff sv.
Sonoff garage door opener.
An multimeter an app installed on smart phone or tablet.
Spare remote control for security 2 0 garage door opener sonoff 4 channel pro relay.
Basically you need to connect a usb header device to the sonoff header pins and reflash the esp8266 with the new easyesp image replacing the factory image.
An electric soldering iron.
Nodemcu esp8266 chip for door sensor.
One option we picked up was using the sonoff sv to try but as an alternative the moes version of the garage door opener is easy to install.
Here sonoff 4chpror2 wifi smart switch is a worthy investment.
Moes garage door opener on amazon.
This turns the device into a device that will talk to your home automation system not just the phone app that comes with the sonoff devices.
Out of the box it does come with tuya smart life firmware but of course we wanted to get rid of that and put open source local control software such as tasmota on it.
Much much more compact.
It is an absolutely affordable wifi garage door opener that can be triggered to open or close the garage door through your smartphone instead of leaving your car.
It is cool but expensive.
Sonoff sv is a wifi 2g 3g 4g wireless smart switch that supports 5 24v power supply.
Speaking of which a smart garage door will occur in your brain.
1 remotely control your door anytime and anywhere via an app on the smartphone or tablet.