Making my 1980's Garage Door Smart!

[Music] here's the deal my house was built in 1985 or something along those lines and these are the original garage door openers so i was like you know what i want to get for myself i'm going to get myself a nice fancy smart garage door opener and i bought this unit from chamberlain on amazon for i don't know it was like a few hundred bucks or something it had good reviews or whatever and everything seemed hunky dory i got it out i started opening it up and i'm reading the manual and i make it all the way to this page in the manual that refers me to a website that then i scroll like way down i click a thing and finally i find out that the if this then that integration for chamberlain's garage door openers is a subscription service jake can you be my can you be my you know expert consultant here for a minute is there any reason that if this then that integration would require a subscription like a paid subscription a paid subscription no i don't think so no no there really isn't so i could afford it it was only a dollar a month but the reality of it is that chamberlain we're gonna do it ourselves we're gonna take these ancient garage door openers we're gonna make them smart with the help of what like 30 bucks worth of gear off ali express amazon you got that oh amazon i got one more for you here this guy you got this guy what's this cost i've these are like 30 bucks each all right you probably would have better off just paying the fee this is gonna pay itself back in like five years it's the principle of the thing and speaking of the principle of the thing madrina's coffee madrinas blends specialty cold brew coffees into 15-ounce grab-and-go cans for your convenience and you can check them out and use offer code linus we're gonna have that down below to save 40 today or even tomorrow but don't put it off like 40 that's crazy so just to give you some idea how overdue home replacement is that's huge that is because that's my garage door what the hell well yeah it works of course it works oh yeah why would you wow it doesn't work that well you can't you can't stop it yeah you can oh so let's start with the highly advanced system um for my garage door openers here we've got these two doorbell ringers oh they're not even better 10 out of 10 um do you even push the button no the the buttons are loose so if you kind of jiggle them around they kind of go every once in a while they just open on their own and they're definitely very very attached to the wall wow you can replace those you know they're just regular switches dude look at your neck yes so jake shot me with a nerf dart before we started then over here we've basically got the safety sensitivity like there's no there's no beam or anything that's just like how hard it's gonna push on you before it stops and then this is open and this is closed but like i don't know why are they on lubey i don't really know what that is like it's like it's dripping grease yeah i don't know do you get that on your car meanwhile i'm storing this in here with this like epic garage by the time this video comes out this will not be in here by the way guys so don't break into his house yeah please so walk us through what we've got here the basic premise is this is a wi-fi switch it's like those buttons over there but instead it's got some relays here we're going to wire this up to your garage door each one of them and then you should be able to just click a button on your phone and it should actuate this and that's all you got to do now does it replace the hardware button uh it can do both we can just run it in series or not in series but like together with it and then because this isn't going to tell us whether the garage door is open or not we're going to have a second thing this is from a company called roost they sent this to us thanks for that um and they actually normally make these for insurance purposes like your insurance your house insurance might require you so it logs like whether it was open or not at the time that a theft occurred or whatever yeah so we're just going to stick this on the garage door and we should be able to on the app see if his garage door is open or not then we've got this guy this is a little bit cheaper does that other one do up to four yeah who has a four car garage rich people but you don't have to use them for garages it can be like to turn anything on really okay sure fine so this one's just for a single use and then you just take your micro usb plop it in there put that there on that there there if i could get it there you go and you can also just power it with any five volt power supply so you can use a battery or a battery pack and this will probably last for like months cool but we're gonna plug it in step one just do it step one step two make magic happen keep doing it so hold on a second do i need to like are we even we're not even getting into any high voltage wiring here are we no this is literally no it's 12 volt we need a flat head getting a little excited over there oh my god that's the og screwdriver yeah i keep it here now because i don't want to like get it confiscated at the airport or something that almost happened except this one time this was amazing so what i did is i took the bit out of it put it in here they literally take it out of my bag and go oh yeah it's a good thing this is really blunt or i'd have to take it are you saved by the best are you even for real right now because meanwhile i've got all this other stuff in here that's pointy ac slash dc 7 to 34 to 32 volt 10 amps at 250 ac or 30 dc sure casual right so just like all the things yeah okay what's the app it's called e link is there a is there is there a paid subscription for that ifttt integration are you sure it's almost like it's a free api dear user it's a dollar a month for ifttt integra just kidding it's not is there somewhere we can plug this in that isn't up there uh yeah yeah for sure i'll do it over here over here boop ah lights we may put it in the plastic oh so it's just here while we test it yeah i just wanted to not be standing on top of a ladder while we try to set this up okay power up the model then press and hold pairing button for five seconds until the led indicator blinks twice and on repeatedly what does blinks twice and on repeatedly mean hey oh yeah blink twitter it is okay make sure your phone and the model are closer enough to wi-fi router found second generation device hey heck yeah so if you click one of those it should you should hear the relay click hold on wait for it this is sick yeah how much is this like 30 bucks if you only need one it's only i think i checked it was like 19 canadian that's awesome so now all we need to do is rip this ghetto stuff i think you should just leave those and then we can have it also so if somebody needs to come in here that doesn't have the app like couldn't we just put this here and then just splice in some wire we need to figure out which ones because otherwise if we put this up by the garage door opener then we have to run a little bit all right i'll grab the wires okay do you get wire strippers uh yeah i got wire strippers oh yeah yeah baby you got lots of strippers oh even a little multimeter do you know they make like 1500 multimeters i'm sure they do for people who are far more qualified to use multimeters than i am i am so excited to be able to open my garage door yeah like honestly i'm excited for you don't touch david do you want one they're for when i'm working oh my god [Music] he scared me i didn't even see him there well he's been doing his martial arts training oh man mini ninja i don't want to get my butt kicked didn't leave much slack in those wires hey we should be replacing these at the same time do you have any buttons uh wow oh so well that explains like why it's broken it just fell apart so this just pushes that onto there like that's it's a very actually no we could probably like fix it pretty easily this might have just been put back together wrong oh there we go yeah this is definitely screwed in this was assembled wrong this was flipped around i think okay nice so this button is actually it's fixed it's like fine now it's not loose anymore yay i can just put some hot glue in and it'll be like fine i think where's that screwdriver uh in my back pocket oh why do you always make me do this oh man it's really tight every time i work with you i end up reaching into your pocket frankly i've had enough you've had enough when i tell you you've had enough oh okay all right maybe just tighten it a little more yeah there you go that was a nice technique i don't have a ton of talents but i'm pretty good at screwing things up every time you see that wire that you don't want to pick up just because you're so mad it does seem like there's not a lot that can go wrong honestly yeah i think it'll probably work fine knock on wood but you have to do the knocking it's your house that's how excited i am about having a garage door demonetized are you not allowed to direction on youtube i think yeah probably you don't have to roll on this david this is this is awful well you can just check yeah yeah okay you just go like this and then a light goes on and you go okay it's one oh no i meant like which of these three oh well it's labeled how is it yeah so you've got your ground and then you've got your c yeah get ready no so you've got no you've got nc which usually stands for no connection i'm going to look up this video of this other guy using it let's just let's just go for it i mean it can't be that complicated okay give me a second i'm coming in the shower it wasn't me i was saying a little louder it wasn't me we definitely left way too much wire on that one yeah and it might actually bridge but i guess it doesn't really matter it should be okay okay so plug it in that's it hey hey smart garage door we click it again before it closes oh and it pauses and then click it again hey doesn't have to go down after that no no it just continues so now we just have to wire the other one up yeah should we let's cut these wires it looks awful i can do that later don't worry about it you're never going to do it i'll i'll do it i'll do it i'll do it okay i'll do it all right i'm going to do it horrible noise hey then do the first one at the same time dang download pending why is this down okay i'm gonna go stand closer to my access point here what's going on quickly yeah go for it let's do it okay no wait put your hand up what are you you're just taking one oh that's a lot that's too many oh you got us in there it was it was david's idea nope you have no devices click to add a new device wait to hear a beep then click next i'm assuming there was a beep at some point um there's the beep oh what are you doing oh no it's connected so there it is the bolt wi-fi battery good okay so now we have to stick this okay so is it what is it like an accelerometer then or like yeah it has yeah no oh okay that's cool we should probably clean this off oh there's spider webs there too that's your cleaning tip i mean i have cloths well it's oh now i got cobwebs on me oh anyways what did you put it on there already i already wiped it off with my hands what are you doing i just like oh okay well thanks let me clean let me clean my hands no no okay what would make this perfect is if it just fell please don't fall off it's gonna make me look really stupid if it does come on buddy yeah thank you so that's it now i can control my ancient garage doors and i can see if they're open heck yeah heck yeah ow oh my hands are so cold yes very uncomfortable all right are we chest bumping are we high-fiving we're high-fiving okay no why not all right what no no you weigh a lot more than that light is just on there okay come on we got it okay one two three the mass drop sennheiser hd 6xx headphones are one of my favorites and they're one of massdrop's all-time best sellers with over 60 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which you should totally join oh i got it that was a nice technique i don't have a ton of talent but i'm pretty good at screwing things up i mean i think editor can you please make it seem like i came up with that right on the spot when he said that's a pretty good technique there with the screwdriver i think you were you were screwed you were screwing you were screwing horizontally it would make me so happy if we could edit that to make it seem like i'm a lot cleverer than i am clever my anticipation is the editor will include the editor's note they really are mean people sometimes lmg editors just straight up bad people

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 2,170,161

Keywords: smart home, smart, iot, garage, garage door, old is new, technology, internet, wifi, relay, internet of things, roost, monitor

Id: H3gVqSgoQak

Length: 14min 56sec (896 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 16 2019