It’s been a while since Pi Garage V2 has been released and I have not mentioned it on my socials. Since this is a major release I thought I would go into a bit of detail on to why I decided to make a major release version bump as well as the nitty gritty to what changed.

V1 Problems

Although V1 worked it had a pretty big flaw in my opinion and it was related to how it handled the sequences. To rewind, in Pi Garage a sequence is the actual hardware “actions” that take place when a door is “opened”, “closed” or “toggled”.

As I had chosen to use a Raspberry Pi for the hardware this allows me to use any language and framework that I want as long as the Raspberry Pi supports it. To view the current Open Source code can see it here on GitHub.

I new that I wanted to write the app in Node.JS (my favourite) and to make my life easier I commonly use the application framework NestJS. This opinionated framework which is heavily inspired by Angular and it’s structure (and cli) allows you to build all sorts of applications quickly and easily.