Openhab Garage Door Opener

Door sensor installed on garage door reports open close status.

Openhab garage door opener.

Hooray for open source. Relay attached to pi connected to garage wireless remote. When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api.

This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. If you have multiple garage door openers and or lights the device index is based on the order the garage door opener light s were added to the myq app. A switch to open close the door. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.

The controlling is done in one topic. 2 switches for feedback for open and closed messages. Here is my garage door hardware. My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled.

This is what i did. It has a actually 2 remote controls with one button that controls the opening. Door status off closed on open set invert true on channel to invert switch. Or you can pre order a pre built one.

I tapped into the buttons on the wall and ran a pair of wires to the relayboard and connected them to common and normally open. Setting up a garage door opener i recently installed an automatic door opener in my garage and of course i wanted to hook it up to my openhab system. There are a range of options depending on your situation and what it is you are controlling. Distance reading from the opengarage controller default in cm status switch.

I use a reed switch to report whether the garage door is open or closed. You will need something other sensor set up to report its status. Currently have a chamberlain garage door opener and was using the myq add on to control it through openhab but they keep changing the api which renders the add on useless. For example i have a relay that controls my garage door openers.

My config settings. Looking for ideas what and how to use to add. The garage opener i bought is called boxer 3000 and it seems similar to almost all other openers on the market. No need to wire anything in the garage.

One press starts or stops the. For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. Chamberlain 1 25 hp myq corner to corner lighting smart belt drive garage door opener with myq and wi fi compatibility and battery back up and led light item 1099692 model b1381. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface.