Mimolite garage door controller with phone vera mobile app

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I just bought a vera 3 and a mimolite to control my garage door. I don’t have a door sensor yet.
I hooked the wires and unplugged P5 jumper before pairing with my Vera. It shows up as a light switch.

It sort of works. On my phone (using vera mobile app), I press light switch once, garage door opens, and press second time (light switch is off), nothing happens. Now, press again to turn light switch on, the door closes, again, turning switch off does nothing. That is, I have to press the on/off switch twice to operate the door.
Same thing if using the vera device web site to control the door.

After I installed mimolite garage door plugin, on the vera device web page, the light switch becomes an open/close icon. And it works there - press once to open or close the door.
However, on the phone, it is still the same - need to press twice to open or close the door (it is still an on/off switch).

Any idea this can be fixed?

Thanks!

2

I would recommend one of the alternative apps, which can be customized. I use homewave and it shows up as it should.

3

Homewave only has iPhone version? I am using an Android phone.
I tried home buddy, which does not even list the door as a device.

4

I figured it out. It seems when include the mimolite, one has to remove the P5 before plug in the power.
I excluded mimolite and include again. Now it works fine, single one click opens and closes the garage door.

5

I still have a problem with the garage door app if used in a scene.

If I use garage door alone (mimolite + ecolink garage door tilt sensor), it seems to be fine.

However, I created a scene called “arriving home”, it opens garage door and porch lights stuff immediately.
I found that if I activate the scene, the garage door opens, but closes immediately, which is scary. Sometimes, it opens and stops at the middle.

My scene is pretty normal, except that I have a small Luup code to turn on porch lights only if it is night:

if (luup.is_night()) then
– turn on porch light
luup.call_action(“urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1”, “SetTarget”, {newTargetValue = “1”}, 5)
end

Not sure if this has anything to do in the scene with the garage door problem. Any idea?