Garage Door Plugin

Newzwaver · June 3, 2016, 1:24am

I should add that the plugin i am using is
App id:2998
Current Version:2.1

integlikewhoa · June 3, 2016, 4:01am

[quote=“Newzwaver, post:401, topic:167178”]I should add that the plugin i am using is
App id:2998
Current Version:2.1[/quote]

If your lock and unlock icons are not reading right then the following.
If your sensor for the alarm panel is working correctly in vera then I would say that you don’t have the garage door plugin setup correctly looking at that sensor. Double check the device ID you used in the garage door plugin for the sensor.

Newzwaver · June 3, 2016, 12:22pm

Thanks everyone for your help it is greatly appreciated. I found the problem, when I switched to Vera Plus for some reason the device ids got messed up. Then to complicate things even more my sensor was damaged, how no idea but damaged. I fixed the sensor and looked at the sensor ids, corrected them and before the changes actually worked i have to do a zwave reload. After that all good.

Thanks again and on to the next project.

integlikewhoa · June 3, 2016, 3:44pm

[quote=“Newzwaver, post:403, topic:167178”]Thanks everyone for your help it is greatly appreciated. I found the problem, when I switched to Vera Plus for some reason the device ids got messed up. Then to complicate things even more my sensor was damaged, how no idea but damaged. I fixed the sensor and looked at the sensor ids, corrected them and before the changes actually worked i have to do a zwave reload. After that all good.

Thanks again and on to the next project.[/quote]

Glad to here.

titof174 · July 13, 2016, 12:51pm

Hello everyone,

I use this plugin for my garage door and it works very well but there is just a little thing that bothers me.

When I press the Lock button, the latch on the icon is immediately put in red , which means that the door is locked.
In fact, my door is locked when it reaches the end of race and my door sensor returns " locked" device .

If my door jammed during closing , I would not know .

I propose the latch of the icon appears only when the door sensor is really locked .

RichardTSchaefer · July 13, 2016, 1:11pm

Actually the state is will show unlocked a short time later … if it does not lock …
Try it … stop the door manually.

Changing the status immediately has two purposes:

Visual Cue that the command was sent
Keep from accidentally sending a second command that would stop the door motion.

titof174 · July 13, 2016, 1:16pm

OK, thanks for your answer
I will try when i am back at home

kvy · August 3, 2016, 5:51pm

Ok Guys I apologises for the probable daft question about to follow but I am struggling getting my head around configuring the door plugin.
I have down loaded the plugin and it is showing on the dash board as locked. I have a vision door tilt sensor (ID 95) and a Fibaro relay to trigger the garage door bell push (ID 77) I have set these Id numbers on the plugin as per attachment. When i press the garage door plugin its says sending command then a whirly wheel then goes back to original dash board showing as locked. This status does not change weather the door is open or closed. Any help would be very gratefully received as I am very new to all this (please be gently)

Thanks

RichardTSchaefer · August 3, 2016, 10:50pm

You also need to restart Vera after making the changes.

kvy · August 4, 2016, 5:42pm

Thanks for the reply Richard. I have tried reboot the vera unit several times but nothing has changed. Any further advice/ help you could offer please?

RichardTSchaefer · August 5, 2016, 3:42am

Make sure both of the following work correctly:

If you toggle the Switch Device On then Off using the Vera Interface … Does the door start to move ? Open if closed, or closed if open ?
If you manually open or close the garage door, does the door status return the correct status ?

kvy · August 9, 2016, 11:41am

Hi Richard, Just a thanks for your reply. I have got it sorted and the Gargae door app is also now working great Thanks.
I got vera support to have look in the back ground and they changed a few settings on the tilt sensor and now all is good.

Cheers

kvy · August 10, 2016, 6:26pm

Ok, I am hoping to get my garage door <via the garage door plugin?> to close its self at 1/2 hour past sunset, if open, and to do nothing if it is already closed.
Is this something i can do in vera scenes? I am running vera plus version 1.7.2044.
Thanks

RichardTSchaefer · August 10, 2016, 10:05pm

You can create or scene or use PLEG.

You would create a Schedule trigger for a scene that runs everday at 30 minutes after sunset.
It’s action would be to lock the door. If the door is already locked … the action is ignored.

kvy · August 16, 2016, 8:06pm

Thanks for the pointer Richard. And the great app.
All up and running and working great.

davedecali · September 4, 2016, 4:57pm

Hello Richard,

Can you help point me in the right direction to reverse the setting on the mimolite/fortrezz relay I am using to replace the now dead LFM20 relay.

Basically, the mimolite needs to be “on” to allow for the wall switch (non z-wave, basic push button) to be active and work as a normal opener.

The garage door plugin cycles from on to off and opens the door as it should however leaves the wall button useless. If the relay would cycle to off to on, I would be good to go. I could probably do a PLEG that would cycle to an on state with an if/then after say 5 minutes or so, but thinking that would be overkill.

davedecali · September 4, 2016, 5:53pm

So apparently had the switch wires on the incorrect terminals. Lots of MimoLite material out there, but not all good I am finding. I am happy to report that all is up and running and utilizing the Garage Door Plug in since I use the wireless tilt sensor and not a hardwired magnetic sensor.

Cor · December 12, 2016, 6:23pm

I want to use the garage door plugin for my gate.

The gate has a sensor at the “closed” position, and activation is done by a fibaro relais , with option 4 set at 2 seconds ( after activating , the relais goes automatically to off after 2 seconds).

I have the same setup for my garage door , this is working fine , but for the gate I can not get it to work properly.

Somehow, depending on the “DoorSwitchPulseTime” the gate activates again.
When I set it to 10 , the gates opens , but stops opening after 10 seconds.
When I set it to 0 , the gate opens a tiny bit , and shut off the fibaro relais again.
When I set it to 40 , the gates opens completely , but after 10 seconds the gates closes again.
It takes about 20 seconds to completely open the gate.

The sensor does its job as it needs to do.

I don’t get the logic of this plugin, why does it toggle the fibaro relais again after the “DoorSwitchPulseTime”. ( while it doesn’t do it with my garage door).

Thanks,
Cor

RichardTSchaefer · December 12, 2016, 11:58pm

The garage door plugin ALWAYS toggles the “Control Device” two times. It was designed to work with a standard Z-Wave switch device.

When you connect this to a device that automatically resets the switch … it’s up to you to figure out what this is going to do …

Cor · December 13, 2016, 8:59am

Ah , I see.
I am wondering why it is working with the garage door than , since I hav exactly the same setup there.

Cor