Openhab Garage Door Opener

There is already a binding available for openhab 1 works on 2 so you can know your home made device will work with openhab.

Openhab garage door opener.

Or you can pre order a pre built one. The controlling is done in one topic. A switch to open close the door. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface.

For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. For example when i turn on my home alarm system the garage door is automatically closed. 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.

I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall. 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. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api.

My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled. Chamberlain 1 25 hp myq secure view and ultra bright smart belt drive garage door opener with myq and wi fi compatibility and battery back up and led light and camera s item 1630354 model b6765. Hooray for open source. My config settings.

2 switches for feedback for open and closed messages. Rule a garage opener was triggered when item agarageopener1 received command or item agarageopener2 received command then var topic triggeringitem name substring 1 cmd sendcommand topic on loginfo logname garage opener triggeringitem name substring triggeringitem name length 1 was triggered if vnetwork cerberos state off this is a network binding item that goes off when the rpi goes offline aalert sendcommand attempting to trigger a garage opener but the. I can then use this from other rules with garagedoorcommand sendcommand open to open the door. 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.