ALEKO sliding gate

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Hello all, first post! ;D

So, I bought an ALEKO AR900 sliding gate operator for my front sliding gate, and I am looking to integrate it with Vera. Here is the installation manual.

So, how would you go about to integrate it with Z-Wave?

Thanks and regards

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Connect a momentary Z-Wave switch to the same connection point that you attach the push button wall switch, terminals 14 & 15 on the control board. Configure it just like the garage door discussions on this forum.

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I use a MIMOlite on my Aleko dual swinging gate. But like Z-wave said almost any garage door z-wave setup would work, as it works off the same principle. #14 and #15 just need to be closed to trigger the gate to work.

A mimolite also works off 12-24v DC power. So altho it includes a plugin transformer I didn’t use mine and just grabbed 24v off the main board to power it and hooked the two wires to #14 and #15.
Mimolite also has 2 wire input for a contact sensor to tell vera if its open and closed. So its a relay and sensor in one z-wave unit.

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Thanks guys for your response. So, I think I will go with the Mimolite.

@integlikewhoa did you installed the contact sensor ?

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[quote=“fidodido, post:4, topic:186921”]Thanks guys for your response. So, I think I will go with the Mimolite.

@integlikewhoa did you installed the contact sensor ?[/quote]

Yes I bought a 10.00 outdoor garage door contact and I had to install mine in the center of the gate on the floor with the magnet on the bottom of the gate the way mine opens. Yours will be easier since its a sliding.
Get somthing like this a run the wires threw the gate tubing under, the gate tubing or burried back to where the mimolite is (which should be inside the same main panel of the gate). The two wires of the contact wire up to the mimolite (you might need to extend the wires on the contact).

Picture of that I used below, but Might be to big and not needed for you application.

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Of course this will only work if your Mimolite is close enough to your Z-Wave controller. If so, it will be an easy install. If not, you may have to run some wires from the ML into your Z-Wave network. (ZNET)
We have kits for Gate installations here.

You might want to get to know the UL325 standards for electric door and gate control as they want you to put devices in that give a noise and light warning before the gate is closed.

If you choose to go this route, I recommend the Telguard GDC1

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The Telegard GDC1 is an excellent solution.

Though not related to this application, hopefully Telegard will develop a similarly well done solution(complete and clean) for garage door openers that implement digital wall button signaling like the MyQ openers.

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Only the newer MyQ openers seem to use the digital Security+ 2.0 system. My older MyQ/Assurelink one works great with the GDC1. They did create a sleeve for the wall controller that enables the GDC! to work with Security +. I think they are also working on a similar solution for using like the car remote version.

I believe Chamberlain has Security+ patented and if so, based on their lack of support for 3rd party apps for MyQ, I doubt they’ll be anymore forthcoming on that unless there is $$$$$$$ involved.

On a side note, I still have the MyQ/Assurelink plugin setup so I have 2 ways of controlling my garage door. 8)

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Thanks integlikewhoa, that was helpfull. I will get back to this thread if I have any questions after I start the installation.

@Jamr, the Mimolite and my vera are not very close to be honest, but I thought that the light switches for the front porch light could “beam” the signal to them ? Also, already have the light and sound from my garage door opener.

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[quote=“fidodido, post:9, topic:186921”]Thanks integlikewhoa, that was helpfull. I will get back to this thread if I have any questions after I start the installation.

@Jamr, the Mimolite and my vera are not very close to be honest, but I thought that the light switches for the front porch light could “beam” the signal to them ? Also, already have the light and sound from my garage door opener.[/quote]

I’m not sure if you aleko plastic box is the same as mine, but I also removed the black plastic box around the mimolite (you’ll see you need to do it anyways to attach the wires) and I left it off and mounted the mimo on the back of the door/cover in the aleko weather proof box. Ran a few short alarm wire to make the connections in the aleko box and to the contact sensor.

Just make sure you read the mimolite voltage input right and the aleko voltage. 24v AC is not the same as 24v DC.
24v AC will pop the mimolite

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[quote=“fidodido, post:9, topic:186921”]Thanks integlikewhoa, that was helpfull. I will get back to this thread if I have any questions after I start the installation.

@Jamr, the Mimolite and my vera are not very close to be honest, but I thought that the light switches for the front porch light could “beam” the signal to them ? Also, already have the light and sound from my garage door opener.[/quote]

Yes, most hard wired and powered Z-Wave devices do act as repeaters but that doesn’t mean a signal can get out to your gate. Wireless is tricky.
An easy way to tell if your gate is in your wireless ZNET is to plug in a lamp module out at the gate motor and see if you can send and receive signals. If you do not have a outlet available out by the gate motor, you can run an extension cord out there with the lamp module to see if it will work. Hopefully it will, but if it does not, then you will need to re evaluate the project.