Openhab Garage Door Opener

The garage opener i bought is called boxer 3000 and it seems similar to almost all other openers on the market.

Openhab garage door opener. This is what i did. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface. One press starts or stops the. I regularly do that remotely e g.

I use a reed switch to report whether the garage door is open or closed. There are a range of options depending on your situation and what it is you are controlling. My config settings. 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.

A switch to open close the door. No need to wire anything in the garage. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall. Door sensor installed on garage door reports open close status.

There is already a binding available for openhab 1 works on 2 so you can know your home made device will work with openhab. 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. Door status off closed on open set invert true on channel to invert switch. Relay attached to pi connected to garage wireless remote.

This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. 2 switches for feedback for open and closed messages. When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled.

Raspberry pi relay garage door remote controller and z wave door sensor and some python code. Or you can pre order a pre built one. The controlling is done in one topic. It has a actually 2 remote controls with one button that controls the opening.

For example i have a relay that controls my garage door openers. For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api. Hooray for open source.

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. Here is my garage door hardware. 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. Distance reading from the opengarage controller default in cm status switch.