Pin Pad for Garage Door\Gates

Other Devices & Integrations Door Locks & Sensors
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Anyone found (or hacked together) a pin pad for controlling a garage door or gate? There was the Poly-Pad, but that was Euro only and has since been killed off. Poly Control lists a keypad on their website as “in development,” but who knows how long (if ever) before it is available.

Just curious if there are any other options out there…and I’m not afraid to cobble something together with spit and bailing wire if needed.

Thanks!

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You could try http://mysensors.org . If you have knowledge of Arduino, it is pretty simple to hack together a keypad that you could simulate as a lock in Vera.

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Interesting…I’ll do some research. I wonder if I could get an arduino board to play nicely with pins stored in Vera?

Thanks.

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The new 1.4 api has the ability to send data from vera to Arduino easier but communication as I recall still isn’t secure. Check out their forums for more details.

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Security would be the only issue with using arduino as it uses wirrless communications. You could see if there is a wired option.

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Ardunio also uses wires, its just people find wireless easier and fits their project better. That’s why your used to seeing wireless.

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I was talking about MySensors. It uses a radio to communicate between the around connected to the keypad and an arduino connected to vera. I suggested this because you can have the keypad react differently to each pin code entered(if you want). The only sort of keypad I have seen for z wave creates a lock device in Vera and had much less capability that a DIY option.

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MySensors is arduino. It can be done with or without wires. There is a section on this forum for it and its run by HEK who started and runs the my sensors page.

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Ok.

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If someone does work on the keypad, they could set it up as a scene controller and have each code run a different scene.