Just a quick Thanks for this code … worked perfectly!
Breeze to install… Very cool!!
Thanks!
Worked like a charm in UI5 and just to clarify a couple things because I was scratching my head a couple times.
SensorDevNum = ID of door sensor contact (ie. Aeon Labs door/window sensor)
ContactsDevNum = ID of the Relay Device (ie. turns the garage door open / close)
Also some screenshots of where to get id and what the device looks like installed.
I m not able to find any relais for the European zwave.
Somebody could help me?
Thank you in advance
Regards
Matteo
Anyone knows how to set so the garage door will automatic closed; if you forget to close the garage door for 30 minutes or so ? Thank you in advance;
Are you sure you’d want to do this? What happens if you need it open for some reason, or you have something half in or out? I think you may want to consider having it tell you if it’s open after 30 mins or not via an
alert.
Thanks strangely; you are right. It is not a good idea if it is closed after 30 min or so. But do you know how to setup an alert to tell you after 30 min or so, if it is open.
Well some luup code work work, but maybe check out the countdown timer that @futzle wrote as it should be simpler to set up. Check out this thread for further details of it.
Thank you strangely 
I want to say thanks to Woodsby for the plugin and the others who contributed to this thread. I just installed the garage plugin with the Evolve LFM-20 relay and Everspring SM103 sensor. It works like a charm!!
Curious for those who use the Everspring sensor, what kind of battery life are you guys getting . . . especially with the more extreme temperatures of a garage?
I just ran across this thread… I don’t have the items to do this yet but I’m planning to.
I was also thinking it would be cool to have an addition to this code accommodate a zwave proximity sensor (12v / car powered zwave device) for your car…
Example Scenario: Leaving Home…
- garage door is closed
- you start the car & the zwave device powers up, sends a signal to the Vera
- vera sees the device is now in range and triggers event
- event checks your last ‘check in’, sees state is “home”
- event knows since you are now home, you must be leaving so it triggers the device to open the garage.
- once the proximity device is our of range, this triggers the garage to close.
You may want to check the forum about using rfid tags. Some of the users on this forum were using it to show that they were home or away.
- Garrett
There was also some talk a while back about doing something using the ping sensor and something like a WiFi bridge in the car.
RFID would probably work, but Zwave would be easier and I think cheaper.
What is a ping sensor?
The Ping Sensor is a plugin. It periodically polls a (configurable) IP Address, and sets a virtual Security Sensor based upon whether the IP device is on the network or not.
Having some sort of low power IP enabled device in your car, that automatically joins your home network, would effectively let you see when you car is home… And you could use standard scenes to trigger actions.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,1997.0.html
sounds good, but do you know of an 12 volt, or battery, powered IP based device that is lower priced than a cheap zwave device?
I had this idea in mind of video proximity sensor…
Use a camera connected to BlueIris, overlooking the place the car passes on the way to its parking spot.
Set motion detection masked to registed only relevant area on the entrance to garage
On motion event, Blueiris can run a script, which can do http request to run a scene. Playing with masking one can achieve low false alert rate
There are many cheap routers that support bridge mode and run off of 12V. You can also use something that runs off of 5V. If you live in the USA then monoprice sells a $17 router; you would then just need a high enough power USB cigarette lighter adapter (I have one that supplies 2A) and the correct cable (USB to the applicable size DC barrel jack) and you are done for about 30 bucks! Probably easier to find a cheap 12V one though! Or an Ethernet to wireless bridge instead!
I’m seriously thinking about an actual driveway sensor though such as my post in the following:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,5154.msg73034.html#msg73034
the device needs to be very small… a router, nope.
How small are you targeting? You can get cheap USB powered TP-link models which are about 2" square with the housing. If you wanted smaller, you can use a number of different wifi-serial devices or chipsets (like those of RovingNetworks)… Although that route will cost you more.
Have a look at the TP-Link TL-WR702N.
http://www.tp-link.com/Common/Subject/wireless/TL-WR702N/?siteid=5