Garage Door Plugin

The eye-fi card works fine.
The card will only connect to the network if it thinks it has some photo to upload. Therefore you must have at least one photo on your card, and you must disable any photo upload account in the eye-fi settings utility, so that the photo will always remain on your card.
I have plugged the eye-fi card into my car’s radio/dvd unit. The only issue I have is that it takes a while for my DVD unit to power up the SD card slot after I start the car.

Very cool… thanks for the update!

I wonder if the card works in a regular USB card reader? I have one that was animpulse buy, and as I hardly ever use now, I may try this too!

I ask the following questions because single button garage doors I have owned have a typical sequence of:
open → close → open …
when a single click is made and the operation is allowed to complete. If done quickly the sequence can be:
open → stop → close → stop …
potentially resulting in a partially opened door.

What is the behavior of this plugin if the virtual switch is turned on/off quickly ?

I.e. does it keep from activating the garage door switch device until the previous action has completed (The simple first sequence, What is the timeout?) ? Otherwise it might think it’s closing the door when the door actually gets stopped in mid position. (The second sequence)

If this can happen, does the plug-in continue to try to close the door at a later time ?
In this case the door might open fully first. Then subsequently close.

@waltzer11: Sorry, didn’t reply to this thread earlier, I did not realize you had asked me a question. To answer your question, the Evolve LFM-20 relay, Everspring SM103 sensor, along with the Woodsy garage door plugin was working perfectly with no hiccups for about 6 weeks.

@everyone: Just recently, my garage door started to not work intermittently. The door would not close or open all the way, either with the plugin or traditionally through the garage door remote or wall button. It would take many tries for the door to open or close completely. The frequency of this problem increased over time. I initially thought that the door needed lubing or the tracks were misaligned. Long story short, I called a garage door technician and it was determined that my Chamberlain Liftmaster Model 2280 relay board was shorted. According to the technician, these boards sometime give out on their own; mine was 10 years old OR the Evolve relay some how could have shorted my Liftmaster. He did say the Liftmaster board was uncharacteristically hot and smelled burnt when he moved it. Now I’m wondering if the actual Evolve relay unit did short out my Liftmaster relay board during the span of the previous 6 weeks or if my install of the unit was at fault. Right now, I have the Evolve unit unplugged for now, so no more z wave control of it. :frowning:

Has anyone else had any problems after long term use?

Mine has worked flawlessly for well over a year. The only issue I have is that the AAA batteries in my window sensor seem to run down every other month. I blame the high temperatures here in Houston. I wish I had an alternate way to power my sensor.
Woodsby’s plug-in has been great!

@N5NHL: The batteries for my Everspring SM103 sensor seem to be fine in this Vegas heat. Then again, it’s only been 6 weeks.

Do you or anyone else know how to test if my Evolve relay is operating properly? I do have a multimeter but I do not know how I should use it to test the relay while it is operating.

I am not where I can look up the specs on that relay, but in general if you apply power to the 110v side the low voltage side should be shorted together.
To you test that low voltage side use the continuity setting on your meter. When the relay is powered you should see a short.

Was easy.

I just use scenes to control the door. One scene for “Open” another for “Close”.
Might not be as fun as a combo device, but it was easy no worries screwing up my current devices.
I use the sensor to check status and block the “Open” or “Close” based on that state.
Also added a global called “lastGarageTrigger” which allows me to block unnecessary repeated events.

I’m a little weary of this I_GarageDoor.xml since I don’t want to modify my existing devices.
Would be nice to have plug-in that makes a configurable virtual device. :wink:

Woodsy!
I love this idea. Not sure why someone can’t make a ‘switch’/‘sensor’ combo plug in.
I tried to get this to work with my VeraLite (UI5). Not happening… I even tried adding the Door Lock device type.

Have you made any improvements to this? Anyway we can make a real plug-in and submit it?
Are there other plug-ins that will do the job?
Would prefer to configure the variables outside the plug in. :confused:

@woodsby: Thanks so much for posting this plugin. I use it very day!!! :slight_smile:

One question though. I am using the evolve relay switch for this plugin. Has anyone ever experienced any lockups with this relay???
The reason I am asking is that in the past week the relay locked up twice meaning that it was not responding to any z-wave command and I had to disconnect it from the power multiple times and use the switch many times to revive it.

Any ideas? ???

Flo

You’re case #3, at best.

I have the evlove version of the relay for the garage door and have not experienced any sort of lock ups. I have been running this configuration for over a year now.

  • Garrett

Thanks guys…

@oTi@ Thanks for the link…
I took the cover off and will see if its maybe heat related? If it happens again, I might just send it back for a replacement…

Sounds like your case was particularly bad; I’ve had the issue exactly once, so far. Don’t know about @rlmalisz.

Just to collect data / compare, can you state Vera model, Vera firmware version, Z-Wave firmware version, MiOS routing enabled, and [tt]Capabilities[/tt] and [tt]Version[/tt] strings from the LFM-20?

Sure,

I have the Vera light, newest Firmware (.408) and MIOS routing disabled. The same issue occured when MIOS routing was enabled though.
This is from the node, please let me know if you see anything unusual.

Capabilities 211,156,0,4,16,3,L,R,B,RS,|37,39,43,44,112,114,115,134,
Version 6,2,97,5,10
Manufacturer ACT - Advanced Control Technologies
Model
Neighbors 1,3,4,6,7,8,10,11,12,15,16,17,23,26,30,31,
Configured at 16-JUL-2012 20:50

Anyways, for some reason I have the feeling that it might be heat related. The relay gets warm to the touch and I had it in a enclosed box. But I am not sure though. The annoying part is that if this node fails, it takes my locks with it (routed via this node). Also, some of my other evolve dimmers on the second floor say bye as well. Ah well, the fun of z-wave :slight_smile:

I will let you guys know how it goes. Thank you everyone for your feedback!
Flo

Thanks. That’s all the same as mine.

Thanks. That’s all the same as mine.[/quote]
Thanks!

Has anyone ever experienced any lockups with this relay???
Not with the relay, but I did experience lockups with a GE receptacle that was installed in the ceiling above the garage door opener.

The receptacle lockups stopped after I changed the metal gang box it was mounted in, to a plastic one.
I’ve since added the relay to the same box, and for good measure, in case it’s a radio reception issue, I drilled a small hole in the cover plate for the antenna to stick out of.

[quote=“JOD, post:119, topic:167178”]

Has anyone ever experienced any lockups with this relay???

Not with the relay, but I did experience lockups with a GE receptacle that was installed in the ceiling above the garage door opener.

The receptacle lockups stopped after I changed the metal gang box it was mounted in, to a plastic one.
I’ve since added the relay to the same box, and for good measure, in case it’s a radio reception issue, I drilled a small hole in the cover plate for the antenna to stick out of.[/quote]

Thanks JOD.
That is interesting… unfortunately I am using a plastic box already which is sitting on top of the garage door opener. Keeping my fingers crossed that the warm weather here causes the issues…