Just put in my new opener with MyQ and have it linked in to Vera and working fine. The thing I’m struggling with is that manually operating the door (meaning operating with the remote in the car, the PIN pad, the button on the wall, etc.) does not update the door’s status in Vera. Is there a way to get the status to update short of adding a tilt sensor to the door to use as a trigger? There does not appear to be a location in the configuration to define a polling interval to update the status.
By default, I believe there is a 120 second time in between the plugin logging into MyQ to check the status. In theory, if you waited that time it should update. I believe you can change the plugin time to 30 seconds. I have that. If it’s not working, depending on the MyQ components you have perhaps the plugin doesn’t support them. But I thought the plugin was to work with additional doors and lights.
Only device is the GDO. I actually dropped the refresh down to 20 seconds and it will detect the change. I need faster response, however. It seems that the MyQ system updates the MyQ account (which has a small delay) and then I have to wait up to 20 seconds beyond that. Since I’m using the opening of the door to trigger turning on lights, I need an “instant” notification sent to Vera.
So, tilt sensor it is.
[quote=“ember1205, post:3, topic:192120”]Only device is the GDO. I actually dropped the refresh down to 20 seconds and it will detect the change. I need faster response, however. It seems that the MyQ system updates the MyQ account (which has a small delay) and then I have to wait up to 20 seconds beyond that. Since I’m using the opening of the door to trigger turning on lights, I need an “instant” notification sent to Vera.
So, tilt sensor it is.[/quote]
I wanted the same thing, so I went with door switches. The tilt sensor will accomplish the same thing for you.
[quote=“lingerba, post:4, topic:192120”][quote=“ember1205, post:3, topic:192120”]Only device is the GDO. I actually dropped the refresh down to 20 seconds and it will detect the change. I need faster response, however. It seems that the MyQ system updates the MyQ account (which has a small delay) and then I have to wait up to 20 seconds beyond that. Since I’m using the opening of the door to trigger turning on lights, I need an “instant” notification sent to Vera.
So, tilt sensor it is.[/quote]
I wanted the same thing, so I went with door switches. The tilt sensor will accomplish the same thing for you.[/quote]
Thanks.
I’m going to have to add new scenes, then… The tilt sensor will be a trigger at open, 3 second pause, then send the “open” command to the door opener. This will effectively do nothing to the opener since it’s already in motion. I might not bother with the door close scene and just let the door opener update itself.
I had the exact same requirement because I wanted lights to activate when the door opened, I also wanted the MyQ door lock reading to be correct in Vera. So I put a tilt sensor on the door and use the plugin Rules Engine to synchronise the lock setting with the actual door.
There has to be a couple of seconds delay in setting the lock in Vera to be open otherwise it interferes with some the door opening but we’re only talking about a couple of seconds after its open.
Get yourself a tilt sensor and set something up to synch the lock and the tilt sensor, works perfectly for me.