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Automatic garage door for robotic vacuum cleaner

Home made automated garage door for our iRobot Roomba 980. The door opens when the robot leaves the home base (charger) and closes when the robot enters the home base again. The door is controlled by an arduino board which uses an TCRT5000 infrared barrier module to detect the presence of the robot and two relays to control the motor. The TCRT5000 is the thing with a green LED on the picture in the end of the video. It's placed on top to not be disturbed by or disturb the robots own frontal infrared sensors. The arduino board is also a mysensors (https://www.mysensors.org/) node and can therefor be controlled wirelessly through OpenHAB or any other home automation system if you want to open the door for maintenance. The door stays open when the robot is cleaning. We only let the robot work when we are not at home so, for us, this was the best and easiest solution. To detect if the robot is on it's way to the home base or just passing by, would be difficult and result in unwanted openings of the door. It would also be difficult to hide that external sensor. The motor is a 12 volt windscreen wiper motor from a Volvo V70 -97. The cupboard is from IKEA and is 220 cm high but I use a 200 cm high front door to maker room for the garage in the bottom. As a garage door I use a 20 cm high front for kitchen drawers, mounted on hinges for horizontal kitchen cabinets. They are also from IKEA. So far the project is a great success and makes the robot invisible when it's off duty.