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.
Openhab item garage door.
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.
My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled.
I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall.
Solution with proxy item.
Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface.
Looking for ideas what and how to use to add.
Garadget binding v1 the garadget is cloud based device that futurizes your existing garage door opener letting you open and close your garage door from anywhere including via openhab with this binding.
When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt.
Here is my garage door hardware.
The controlling is done in one topic.
This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items.
Door sensor installed on garage door reports open close status.
Relay attached to pi connected to garage wireless remote.
My config settings.
Remote access is made possible with the particle io rest api.
No need to wire anything in the garage.
For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0.
Raspberry pi relay garage door remote controller and z wave door sensor and some python code.
Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api.
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.
Rule garage door 1 when item mygaragedoorstate changed then mygaragedoorproxy postupdate mygaragedoorstate state end rule garage door 2 when item mygaragedoorproxy received command then mygaragedoorswitch sendcommand on end.
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.
