Just another example on what you can do with GDOPi. You can also automate this by placing the below command in a cron job. For example drop the blinds at 22:00 and lift them up at 8:00. The cron command will look something like this: curl -X POST -d ‘pi=your_pi_name&gate=1’ -H “Authorization: Bearer your_gdo_pi_account_token” http://gdo-backend.herokuapp.com/generatecommand ….  Read More

I have been trying to find a solution to monitor the water level from a tank since 3 years now. I built a lodge in the mountains and there is no public running water system so I collect the rain water from the roof. Naturally it is very important to constantly know how much water ….  Read More

Apart from triggering relays (opening automated gates, turnig off lights etc), GDO PI can also continuously read data from sensors such as temperature, air quality, humidity, ultra sensors etc. In this article I am going to show you how to connect your GDO PI account with Grafana. Through GDO PI, a Raspberry PI can work ….  Read More

Fresh out of the oven – the brand new Android Wear dedicated application for smartwatches running Android Wear OS 2.x. You can grab the APK from here – https://www.gdopi.com/downloads/gdopi_wear.apk Until my Google Play account is ready you will need to manually install the APK on your Android watch. For more information on how to do ….  Read More

GDOPi install procedure: Open a terminal from Raspbian (Start – Accessories – Terminal) and input following commands: wget http://gdopi.com/install/gdo_pi.sh chmod +x gdo_pi.sh ./gdo_pi.sh After configuring GDOPi you can launch it as a process in the background with ./gstart.sh (make sure you are in /home/pi/gdopi folder) To make GDOPi run every time your Pi boots: sudo ….  Read More

A while back, a friend gave me the idea of opening the garage door with a Raspberry PI and a relay board. We hooked it to a Nice garage door remote and voila – now it can open the driveway gate remotely. In time, I did this to all of the gates that I had ….  Read More