I have a Chamberlain Garage Door Opener with the MyQ Internet Gateway. I have the connected and operating as desired in Vera.
One shortcoming of the MyQ system is that the door opener will update its status with my “mychamberlain.com” account when you operate the door via the traditional remote control, but that status update does not make its way into the Vera dashboard until the RefreshInterval for the MyQ plugin has passed (well, UP TO this long, anyhow).
I can shorten this interval up significantly (I’ve tested with as little as 15 seconds) to get the Vera Dashboard to update, but I’m looking for a more elegant solution.
My situation is that I want the detection of the door being opened to turn on the LED overhead lights in the garage at night. That works perfectly, but I see no need to be refreshing my Chamberlain account every fifteen seconds, 24 hours a day, to detect the one or two door opens that should turn on the lights each day.
I’m going to install a tilt sensor on the door. I would like to have the tilt sensor act as a trigger to refresh the MyQ plugin at the time of the state change of the sensor. By refreshing the MyQ plugin, the state of the door will be updated, and my scenes for the opening and closing of the garage door will function as I have designed them based on being controlled via the Vera interface.
So, the question in, how do I send a “refresh now” command to the MyQ plugin from LUA / LUUP code that I can embed in the scene that will be triggered by the tilt sensor?