Garage Door Plugin

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got it working on my second restart of vera. Very cool.
Thanks for the work Woodsby!

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Hey Woodsby…got this all installed and working, and it’s awesome. One question…does the “armed/disarmed” state of the door sensor matter? I have some other scenes based on tripping the sensor if it’s armed (at night)…so I want to make sure this plugin will work when it’s not (during the day).

Thanks!

Brian

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I have finally got all the bits I need to try this out …but I am having issues creating the device as explained in the first post…can anyone help me out? I have edited the imp file to reflect that my door sensor is device 6 and the contact closure relay is device 33 and followed the rest of the instructions…then the new device appears on my dashboard for a few seconds and then it seem to get deleted?
I am using a vera2 on UI4

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I have the same issue…the device gets created then disappears.

I also want to confirm - the SensorDevNum = the LFM-20 and the ContactDevNum = the SM103? Or is this backwards?

Using vera3/UI5

Thanks!!

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[quote=“tommy, post:44, topic:167178”]I have the same issue…the device gets created then disappears.

I also want to confirm - the SensorDevNum = the LFM-20 and the ContactDevNum = the SM103? Or is this backwards?

Using vera3/UI5

Thanks!![/quote]Backwards :slight_smile:

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Changed that, thanks. (Garrett had (mistakenly?) posted: SensorDevNum is your relay and ContactsDevNum is your contact sensor.)

Nonetheless, the new Device keeps disappearing!

47

Are you sure you used the device numbers and not the Zwave node IDs?

48

I’m sure I used the device id num.

49

Me too…at first I used the node ID and had to change it.

50

Found my problem… I was selecting _scene controller in the DeviceNumParent box…I just left it as the default “No Parent” and it all works great.

51

I have this plugin working great now but I’m now wondering if anyone also uses the manual switch on the appliance module to trigger their garage door? At the moment when I use the manual switch I press it twice quickly to turn it on and off again…what would be the best way to automate this so that I only need to press the button once?

Sent from my GT-I9100

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You could set up a scene that turns it off if it’s turned on (use the appliance module as the scene trigger)… but I don’t think it’ll give you the speed you need.

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Back before I used this plugin, my garage door setup was all scene based: on door sensor event, set the virtual device status; and on appliance module on event, turn appliance module off. I don’t recommend this, because if you manually hit the appliance module, and vera doesn’t get the message, your module will be stuck in the on position, which will prevent your garage door buttons from working.

If you really want to do this, you can add a line of code to the garage door plugin I_ file to luup.variable_watch similar to the one already in the imp file for watching the door sensor device status.

Where is your appliance module installed? I kept mine out of reach above the garage opener and inside a pvc enclosure - but I was a zrf113.

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I have one of these Z-Wave Home Automation Australia | Best Smart Home Devices!
Plugged in next to my garage door opener.

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[quote=“baxy_AU, post:54, topic:167178”]I have one of these Z-Wave Home Automation Australia | Best Smart Home Devices!
Plugged in next to my garage door opener.[/quote]Did you modify it?

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No…just plugged a 12v wall wart power supply into it an connected that to trigger a 12v automotive relay which is connected to the garage door opener.

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[quote=“macgeekbrian, post:42, topic:167178”]Hey Woodsby…got this all installed and working, and it’s awesome. One question…does the “armed/disarmed” state of the door sensor matter? I have some other scenes based on tripping the sensor if it’s armed (at night)…so I want to make sure this plugin will work when it’s not (during the day).

Thanks!

Brian[/quote]

hello

i’have this problem

The plugin works well against by my sone alarm that is triggered when the sm103 but even if I bypass opens the garage with another button that I plug off the alarm while in my trigger I put year armed sensor is tripped

is it normal that if you open with the plugin not to do as he was tripped my sil sm103

thanks

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The garage door plugin shouldn’t be affected by whether the sensor device is armed or bypassed, nor should the garage door plugin affect the sensor device. Any scenes you have based on the sensor should operate as if the garage door plugin doesn’t exist.

The only thing the plugin should be doing with the sensor is watch its status variable.

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Hi woodsby
I’m a bit of a noob . Can you please give me details on how to modify the I file to monitor the appliance module as well
Cheers

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Question, I have added the correct device IDs to the .xml file and when I load it it says loaded successfully, but after I create a device with it, it reports delivery failed when I click the lock or unlock on the device. I noticed when I look at the list of luups the I_GarageDoor.xml luup file doesn’t show up. Does this mean it never loaded like it said and maybe this is what is causing the delivery failure. I followed woodsby’s directions to the ‘T’ too. What could be causing this problem with the plugin? I wished simple things weren’t so dang complicated =)

Update: I loaded up the PuTTY software and looked in the cmh-ludl folder and there was a tmp folder and another folder referenced with a number and in that folder was the I_GarageDoor.xml.lzo file. I don’t believe this plugin is compatible with the newer version Verde FW 1.1.1362 because every time it’s uploaded up it just shoves the .xml file into a tmp directory =) I guess I’ll just stand by to see if anyone has made this plugin work with the latest version of Verde, if not I’ll just write my own luups I guess to control my door.

Thanks