Openhab Item Garage Door

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.

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. Relay attached to pi connected to garage wireless remote. Remote access is made possible with the particle io rest api. 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.

The controlling is done in one topic. A switch to open close the door 2 switches for feedback for open and closed messages. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api. Raspberry pi relay garage door remote controller and z wave door sensor and some python code.

I regularly do that remotely e g. For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. 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. 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. No need to wire anything in the garage. Solution with proxy item. Here is my garage door hardware.

My config settings. 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. 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.

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.