Here s how to use mqtt a tilt sensor and home assistant to make your diy garage door opener even smarter.
Home assistant garage door.
Device names in home assistant are generated based on the names defined in your myq device mobile app.
If you use home assistant like me you ll want to integrate control of the smart garage door opener with the rest of your smarthome.
To enable template covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file.
The following device classes are supported for covers.
The first thing we need for this are two magnetic reed switches to detect open and closed states.
I ve had this setup for the better part of a year and thought i would share it in case it helps anyone else control their garage door.
Works like a champ.
Example configuration yaml entry cover.
The myq cover platform lets you control myq enabled garage doors through home assistant.
This hardware has been running with tasmota firmware for the bulk of.
Diy garage door opener home assistant by xo july 29 2020 july 31st 2020 no comments.
Home assistant is the main method i use for opening my garage other than the integrated remote in my car.
Example configuration yaml entry cover.
Left garage door garage2.
I wanted to build my own garage door opener sensor for the purpose of monitoring my garage and managing the garage door.
The template platform can create covers that combine integrations and provides the ability to run scripts or invoke services for each of the open close stop position and tilt commands of a cover.
This is the default and doesn t need to be set.
Connect to home assistant using mqtt with tilt sensor.
By using some of these and some automations we can accurately describe whether the garage door is.
Cheap and easy home assistant garage door control.
The way these sensors are displayed in the frontend can be modified in the customize section.
The opengarage cover platform lets you control the open source opengarage io device through home assistant.
It uses the mqtt protocol to communicate to home assistant.
Wemos garage door opener took an hour or two to build and about five dollars in parts from aliexpress.