Home Assistant Garage Door Switch

Example configuration yaml entry cover.

Home assistant garage door switch.

If you had it for example at the top when its open then the door could be 3 4 open and still register as closed which is hardly ideal. The reed switch is best when the door is closed. The re5v1c is a 2 99 wireless dry contact relay which is perfectly suitable for activating your garage door. Shelly 1 the shelly 1 is a 10 15 device capable of triggering a dry contact relay.

Connecting the shelly to your garage door opener and the contact sensor is relatively easy. But when i say alexa close the garage door she replies with garage door doesn t support that i have to say alexa turn on the garage door. Template switch the template platform creates switches that combines components. Connect the contact sensor to sw and ground of the shelly.

Chamberlain s myq smart garage hub is a 20 system to add smarts to a wide variety of garage door openers. Connect your garage door opener s switch contact to the input i and output o of the shelly. Whether or not your information goes to the cloud is under your control. The opengarage cover platform lets you control the open source opengarage io device through home assistant.

You can use the shelly 1 to make a garage door opener smart in addition to a smart light switch or a smart gas fireplace switch. My hope was that i could put the reed sensor near the second garage door opener itself eliminating the need to stretch the cable out and route it so far. For example if you have a garage door with a toggle switch that operates the motor and a sensor that allows you know whether the door is open or closed you can combine these into a switch that knows whether the garage door is open or closed. Downsides no easily accessible gpio for a reed switch.

To enable opengarage covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file. You could buy a commercial smart garage door opener but using the shelly 1 relay is easy and affordable. Left garage door garage2. With myq installed you can check your garage door s status and open or.

Power the shelly with 24 60v dc. For switches its working just fine.