Openhab Garage Door Icon

This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.

Openhab garage door icon. Supported things this binding supports most of the smartthings devices that are defined in the smartthings capabilities list if you find a device that doesn t work follow these instructions to collect the required data so it can be added in a future. Image png 1072 70 1 7 kb image jpg 1073 667 103 kb. The visibility and custom icon is so the icon on the sitemap and the button are appropriate based on whether the garage door is open or closed. There will be a button to open or 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. My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api. I regularly do that remotely e g.

The controlling is done in one topic. These icons can be used when describing items. 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. You can also add your own.

The icon shown with switch item garage door is appropriate garagedoor closed when contact is closed garagedoor open when contact is open but the functionality of the switch does not work. See the instructions to learn more. Door status off closed on open set invert true on channel to invert switch. Door status off closed on open.

This is implemented as an openhab 2 binding. 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. My config settings. Distance reading from the opengarage controller default in cm status.

Solution with proxy item. Distance reading from the opengarage controller default in cm status switch. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface. For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0.

Please keep attention to the fact that the door will be shown as open when openhab starts up and the state of the door is uninitialized. This will draw one item in the sitemap either with the open or the closed icon.