Has anyone come up with a way to have the functions of a deadbolt keypad that works your garage.
Something you can add codes to via vera and have events when it is operated, but that works a garage door?
Might be a worthy converision for a schlage lock???
I have a scene set up based on a specific pincode on my schlage that closes the garage door and locks the two schlage levers and the kwikset deadbolt at the exterior doors. Of course, it unlocks the door for 5 seconds, but that’s ok.
An ACT ZRF113… search this forum, you will find several posts about this.
I was thinking you may have been using something different. This is just an isolated relay switch…
I’m not sure how you have yours hooked up but if my thinking is correct you have to hit the button twice for one of the open / close operations?
Close switch and door opens or closes, then you have to open the closed circuit state and close the switch again to reverse the direction? Basically shorting the door open / close push button?
JOD.
You basically detect a “valid” PIN code and then trip the relay to open the door…
So, if you were to unlock the door to enter, you also get the Garage door to go up/down?
[quote=“Richardb, post:6, topic:166791”]You basically detect a “valid” PIN code and then trip the relay to open the door…
So, if you were to unlock the door to enter, you also get the Garage door to go up/down?[/quote]
Not just any pincode… Presumably you just burn a few more PIN codes to get the different “combined” actions.
eg. PIN1 == Unlock Door, PIN2 == Unlock Door + Open Garage
The problem with this setup is the use of the on / off type switch.
Modern garage door openers have built in safety circuits that should reverse the door direction when encountering an object in both the opening and closing directions.
In the above scenario the safety circuits would be shunted and the garage door would be forced to continue to move in the given direction, in most setups it would even shunt the safety eye circuit so if a car or kid was in the path of the door it would continue to move without reversing.
I use the X-10 universal module in my setup (I hope someone comes out with a Z-wave device) which has both latch, momentary, buzzer, no buzzer option. I also have an HSM-100 connected to a external rain sensor, the wife has a tendency to always leave the garage door open and it rains ALOT in Florida. If the door is open and it starts raining the water sensor will activate my close garage door scene which is to activate the buzzer for one minute before closing the door and one minute later activate an in house chime. Due to the inherent Vera / X-10 delay it works great.
http://www.diycontrols.com/p-6499-x10-universal-module-powerhouse.aspx
JOD.
I have a 2 second delay between close contacts and open contacts. I don’t have kids, and only use it when I am pulling in or pulling out - not remotely, so I am not worried about it. If you want to be safe, you can wire a couple relays to achieve momentary contact closure.
And, yes, I just use a dedicated pincode for that, as well as one to turn on exterior lighting.
Re: ‘I also have an HSM-100 connected to a external rain sensor’
How is the HSM-100 ‘connected’ to the external rain sensor?
@jkw,
The two pins of the HSM-100 connects to the two wires coming from my rain sensor.
JOD.
On the subject of rain sensors… I am going to get back to the ER++ project in November, and plan on adding a virtual sensor device for the rain sensor port on the ER… so much fun… not enough time… And, since this morning, now I want to wire up some relays to give me momentary contact closure for the garage door… thanks a lot JOD! 
j/k
This is a really cool idea… But, I’m wondering… Vera gets alerted when a BAD code is entered on the Schlage too, and although I wouldn’t want my garage to open when ANY bad code is entered, I’m wondering if the Vera knows what bad code was entered, and I could somehow use LUUP to use a code that doesn’t open the front door to then trigger the garage opener relay? I am definitely not advanced enough with Vera to figure out what variables are passed back from the Schlage, but it seems reasonable, since the Vera knows the specific GOOD code when entered… Does anyone know how i’d find out or read it?
Thanks!