Home Assistant Garage Door Switch

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Home assistant garage door switch.

The opengarage cover platform lets you control the open source opengarage io device through home assistant. The re5v1c is a 2 99 wireless dry contact relay which is perfectly suitable for activating your garage door. For example if you have a garage door with a toggle switch that operates the motor and a sensor that allows you know whether the door is open or closed you can combine these into a lock that knows whether the garage door is open or closed. Example configuration yaml entry cover.

Connecting the shelly to your garage door opener and the contact sensor is relatively easy. So i am just getting my home assistant setup and just got my alexa working using the cloud assistant. My hope was that i could put the reed sensor near the second garage door opener itself eliminating the need to stretch the cable out and route it so far. You could buy a commercial smart garage door opener but using the shelly 1 relay is easy and affordable.

Connect the contact sensor to sw and ground of the shelly. If you had it for example at the top when its open then the door could be 3 4 open and still register as closed which is hardly ideal. Template switch the template platform creates switches that combines components. Connect your garage door opener s switch contact to the input i and output o of the shelly.

This can simplify the gui and make it easier to write automations. You can use the shelly 1 to make a garage door opener smart in addition to a smart light switch or a smart gas fireplace switch. Shelly 1 the shelly 1 is a 10 15 device capable of triggering a dry contact relay. Chamberlain s myq smart garage hub is a 20 system to add smarts to a wide variety of garage door openers.

Downsides no easily accessible gpio for a reed switch. To enable opengarage covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file. For switches its working just fine. The reed switch is best when the door is closed.

With myq installed you can check your garage door s status and open or. But when i say alexa close the garage door she replies with garage door doesn t support that i have to say alexa turn on the garage door.