Now Ask Siri To Open Your Garage Door By Using Raspberry Pi

If #-Link-Snipped-# was an interesting proposition for your front door here is an interesting innovation for your garage door that utilizes #-Link-Snipped-# and Siri. A Raspberry Pi user who goes by the name “DarkTherapy” has posted his project on the Raspberry Pi forum showing how to modify this micro Linux PC to open automatic garage doors by voice commands through Siri. Have a look at the video below that shows the user opening the garage door by his iPhone:

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In order to make this voice activated garage door opener you need the following things:
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[*]SiriProxy running on the Raspberry Pi for enabling custom commands on the Siri app
[*]wiringPI for connecting the PC’s General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins to the garage door relay
[*]Local Wi-Fi for establishing the network between the devices
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Once you have made sure that the Raspberry Pi is able to receive the SiriProxy commands, some coding changes are required in the SiriProxy server. For interested users, the custom codes have been put up in #-Link-Snipped-#. This innovation also makes you think if this trick can be applied on other devices that are compatible with the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins and that could lead to some more interesting innovations.

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