Ecolink Garage Door Tilt Sensor

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The change in the “tripped” variable is the event causing the notification. So it seems like your sensor works. Mounting the sensor upside down is hard to do. I am not sure it would be the behavior expected if it was the case. When the value is 1, your sensor should be non vertical. When the value is 0 your sensor should be head up vertical.

And yes, all battery operated sensors need to be woken up for them to be polled or configured from the vera. When they get tripped or untripped they do send a zwave signal. some wake up to do it, some don’t.

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[quote=“anhman, post:101, topic:178848”]The change in the “tripped” variable is the event causing the notification. So it seems like your sensor works. Mounting the sensor upside down is hard to do. I am not sure it would be the behavior expected if it was the case. When the value is 1, your sensor should be non vertical. When the value is 0 your sensor should be head up vertical.

And yes, all battery operated sensors need to be woken up for them to be polled or configured from the vera. When they get tripped or untripped they do send a zwave signal. some wake up to do it, some don’t.[/quote]

Apologies for being a bother on this, I’m a noob. Thank you for your help.

Ok, I’ll check tonight right after I open and close the garage door to see the change in variables. Do you know if the Vera will show the last status provided by the sensor if it’s in the “disconnected” state? If so, then something is definitely wrong, as the sensor showed a Tripped=1 when the door had been down for quite a while last night.

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It depends on how disconnected the device is… I have had situations where the device could not be found yet I could toggle it. It was just that the return acknowledgement would not make it back to the vera. The sensor should trip/untrip pretty much instantaneously on the vera. Since you received notifications before, I suppose that it did work at some point. You might have a problem with signal strength due to too few devices to relay the signal?

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In 2016, the sensor get added easily to Vera Edge, it’s seen has a motion sensor.

Then if you want to get an alert if the garage door stays open for x seconds, you can use Countdown timer plug-ins. You only need to use the mouse to configure it, by creating two simple scenes.

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[quote=“anhman, post:79, topic:178848”]Ok I think I figured out how to make the Exiling Garage Door Tilt sensor act as a door sensor and not as a motion sensor in UI7:

Advanced/params
Change subcategory_num from 3 to 1
Change device_file to D_DoorSensor1.xml
Change device_json to D_DoorSensor1.json

This should change the icon and classification of the sensor.
After doing this the sensors does react upon open and closing of the door like a door sensor but is not able to trigger scenes.

I had to do the following under the Variables Tab:
Change NodeInfo by adding “20” so it should look like this: 20,30,70,71,72,80,84,85,86,
This fixes the scene trigger
To change to the polling state Vs change state capabilities need to be changed to
83,156,0,4,32,1,R,B,RS,|32,48:1,112,113:2,114,128,132:2,133,134,
Basically adding the 32 after the column.

Hope this helps![/quote]

Ug, I just tried this, with my Vera Lite 1.7.x firmware, and the device vanished. Now I can;t add it back in. Any ideas?

Thanks…

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Okay I take it back, I was able to remove and re-add the device, using the buttons on the Vera. But any idea why the device vanished after I reconfigured it?

Update: Turns out, just changing the first three parameters causes it to disappear… ???

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I have had my tilt sensor working for more than a year now, and it doesn’t take more than 1 false trip to make me uncomfortable with relying on this sensor. I had a setup that would close the garage door (I’m using the garage door plugin) if it was open and UI7 went to night mode. I woke to the sound of the opener 2 nights ago and saw that a false open indication caused the system to trigger the door, which actually opened the door rather than closing it.

Some investigation on this thread led me to check my garage door top panel rollers. I found that the top panel had a little bit of play that would allow the wind to rock the panel slightly. Today I adjusted the upper rollers to take the slop out of the top panel and now it rests pretty solid against the door frame when closed. I think this will eliminate any false alarms, but if it doesn’t I’ll report back any new findings.

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I’m thinking the better way to go is with a magnetic reed switch type sensor.

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I have this device sitting on a table, not far from my Vera Lite, and it seems to work fine for maybe a day. Then, the Vera UI says “Can’t Detect Device.” Restarting Vera Lite seems to correct the problem. Any ideas? Perhaps I need to shorten the wakeup interval? It’s reporting battery at 99%, for what that’s worth.

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I have two of these sensors and since moving to UI7 I can’t get them to work unless I leave as “Motion Detectors” which Vera apparently thinks they are. If I change the parameters as detailed earlier in the thread they stop reporting and are constantly listed as “Waiting for wakeup to configure device…”
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I am in the same position, Ecolink Tilt Sensor on UI7 appears as motion-sensor and doesn’t report open/closed status like a door sensor would.

Updating the device config per the previous posts made the sensor disappear from the dashboard, curiously I still see security alerts from the sensor on the dashboard though

Any ideas ?

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Hold that thought

I just updated to the lasted UI7 firmware and the Ecolink Tilt Sensors now properly report open/closed when the param/settingd suggested in an earlier thread are applied.

Great work chaps.

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After many attempts to “fix” this sensor and prevent false alarms I ultimately installed a standard magnetic reed type garage door sensor (hardwired to my Caddx) and I have had no issues since. Not 1 single false trip with the new sensor in several months.