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by rtkwe 2228 days ago
There's no safeties built in according to their schematic they're directly spinning the motor at full speed with no current monitoring or feedback to the actual position of the door.
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Exactly. What I'm saying is they should NOT be driving the motor directly like they've drawn up but instead, they should be "pressing the button via GPIO" on the real door opener attached to the garage wall.