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If you’ve got a spare garage remote control, a raspberry pi or Arduino board, a soldering iron, an optocoupler, and a sense of adventure, you can easily integrate your existing garage door opener into Home Assistant or what have you.

In fact, the Arduino starter kit comes with a few optocouplers and instructions for basically exactly this project!

Or you can get a tube of a dozen 4N25 optocouplers for like $8 on amazon.

https://store.arduino.cc/products/arduino-starter-kit-multi-...



> If you’ve got a spare garage remote control, a raspberry pi or Arduino board, a soldering iron, an optocoupler, and a sense of adventure,

You just excluded 99.9% of smart home product customers.


Yes, well, but here at HN, hopefully we’ve got the 0.1% in attendance!




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