Ridiculously automated garage door - Closing on my wife's van issue

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What about this project built by @twack

Smart Parking Spotter by Todd Wackford

Building the Hardware This project builds on previous work that I found on the internet. There is a very good tutorial by AptPupil that will get you an operating ultrasonic spotter short of SmartThings. Here is the link to build the Parking Spotter: The tutorial uses a home-built controller (freeduino), but I used an Arduino Uno R3. It was an easy change. It also uses a 4 pin SRF04 Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor. I used a “Parallax Ping 3 pin Ultrasonic Sensor”. So I used the hardware instructions from AptPupil and the Arduino sketch from www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Ping . Once you get the spotter working. Go to the project section “Integrating SmartThings” (page not done yet). Here’s a pic of the finished product installed in my garage. [Photo not found]

It shouldn’t be too expense and would allow you to incorporate the distance from the wall to the car .