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title: "Raspberry Pi Garage door"
description: "Instructions how to setup the Raspberry Pi garage doors within Home Assistant."
date: 2016-02-12 07:00
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ha_category: Garage Door
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The `rpi_gpio` garage door platform allows you to use a Raspberry Pi to control your Garage door.

It uses two pins on the Raspberry Pi. 
- The `state_pin` will detect if the door is closed, and
- the `relay_pin` will trigger the door to open or close.

Although you do not need Andrews Hilliday's software controller when you run Home Assistant, he has written clear instructions on how to hook your garage door & sensors up to your Raspberry Pi, which can be found [here](https://github.com/andrewshilliday/garage-door-controller#hardware-setup).

To enable Raspberry Pi Garage doors in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
garage_door:
  platform: rpi_gpio
  doors:
    - relay_pin: 10
      state_pin: 11
      name: 'Left door'
    - relay_pin: 12
      state_pin: 13
      name: 'Right door'
```

Configuration variables:

- **doors** array (*Required*): List of your doors.
  - **name** (*Optional*): Name to use in the Frontend.
  - **relay_pin** (*Required*): The pin of your Raspberry Pi where the relay is connected.
  - **state_pin** (*Required*): The pin of your Raspberry Pi to retrieve the state.