Wiring of mimolite on garage door question

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Wondering for those who have wired these up to control the garage opener. I think I may know my problem but wanted to confirm before I wasted more time.
I have wired the mimolite directly to the NO & comm screws on the garage opener where the other push button also connects. Regardless of how i set the jumper, or using NO or NC inputs on the mimolite, as soon as I open the door from vera, the vera button loses ability to power it. I need to cycle the switch in vera to off and back on again for it to work. At the same time, power cycle is also back and forth between the push button that came with the opener.
I think my issue is that I wired directly to the opener screws, I should have cut into the wires already coming out going to the push button.
Anyone know?

thanks

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Mine is wired directly to the screws…

Did you pair the mimolite without the jumper? I remember reading somewhere that if the mimolite was paired with the jumper you would need to remove the device from vera then readd it , without the jumper

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Odd if that was the case. The jumper was off when I paired

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I may not be understanding you so I’m going to throw out an obious question here. Are you useing the plugin called “garage door plugin” along with your mimolite and mimolite plugin? If you don’t use a plugin specify for the garage door, what happens is you turn on the light and it closes the contacts (which opens the door) but the contact stay closed and never turn back off. Then you turn off the light and what happens is it opens the contacts (which doesn’t open the door again). Then you need to once again turn on the light which closes the door… And the cycle continues.

What the “GARAGE DOOR PLUGIN” does is adds a door lock icon with 2 buttons lock and unlock. Then you tell that plugin what your light switch (mimolite relay) device number is and what deivce number the door sensor is and it will automatically close the relay for a few sec, then reopen to reset for the next operation. It also shows the status in the form of a locked and unlocked icon and if you click unlock when its opened noting will happen,.

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[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:4, topic:185605”]I may not be understanding you so I’m going to throw out an obious question here. Are you useing the plugin called “garage door plugin” along with your mimolite and mimolite plugin? If you don’t use a plugin specify for the garage door, what happens is you turn on the light and it closes the contacts (which opens the door) but the contact stay closed and never turn back off. Then you turn off the light and what happens is it opens the contacts (which doesn’t open the door again). Then you need to once again turn on the light which closes the door… And the cycle continues.

What the “GARAGE DOOR PLUGIN” does is adds a door lock icon with 2 buttons lock and unlock. Then you tell that plugin what your light switch (mimolite relay) device number is and what deivce number the door sensor is and it will automatically close the relay for a few sec, then reopen to reset for the next operation. It also shows the status in the form of a locked and unlocked icon and if you click unlock when its opened noting will happen,. [/quote]

This is exactly what’s happening, so it is working correctly then. It’s the plug, or even a scene if I want, the cycles the switch back to off to allow it to work again. Awesome, at least I know the unit is setup correctly. Working on getting the Plugin working on UI7, tech support trying to figure out the plugin bugs.

thanks

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[quote=“mpovolo, post:5, topic:185605”]This is exactly what’s happening, so it is working correctly then. It’s the plug, or even a scene if I want, the cycles the switch back to off to allow it to work again. Awesome, at least I know the unit is setup correctly. Working on getting the Plugin working on UI7, tech support trying to figure out the plugin bugs.

thanks[/quote]

Correct right now it basically a latching relay and you need a momentary (quick on then back off again to reset, like when you push then release the button on the wall) The Garage door plugin does this for you. Problem is I don’t think the MIMOlite plugin works correctly on UI7 yet as I think you have found out. I think right now the mimolite plugin is not creating your child devices right? The sensor for the door doesn’t show up? Same as in this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,30342.msg216419.html#msg216419

I just check and the " Garage door plugin" does work on ui7. See the end of this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,26833.0.html

Don’t try and use the “MIMOlite Garage Door” plugin. That one is no good.

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[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:6, topic:185605”][quote=“mpovolo, post:5, topic:185605”]This is exactly what’s happening, so it is working correctly then. It’s the plug, or even a scene if I want, the cycles the switch back to off to allow it to work again. Awesome, at least I know the unit is setup correctly. Working on getting the Plugin working on UI7, tech support trying to figure out the plugin bugs.

thanks[/quote]

Correct right now it basically a latching relay and you need a momentary (quick on then back off again to reset, like when you push then release the button on the wall) The Garage door plugin does this for you. Problem is I don’t think the MIMOlite plugin works correctly on UI7 yet as I think you have found out. I think right now the mimolite plugin is not creating your child devices right? The sensor for the door doesn’t show up? Same as in this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,30342.msg216419.html#msg216419

I just check and the " Garage door plugin" does work on ui7. See the end of this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,26833.0.html

Don’t try and use the “MIMOlite Garage Door” plugin. That one is no good.[/quote]

So yes I have found out that the plugins do not really work, and the one that does really needs the childs to be created or it doesn’t work properly either.

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[quote=“mpovolo, post:7, topic:185605”][quote=“integlikewhoa, post:6, topic:185605”][quote=“mpovolo, post:5, topic:185605”]This is exactly what’s happening, so it is working correctly then. It’s the plug, or even a scene if I want, the cycles the switch back to off to allow it to work again. Awesome, at least I know the unit is setup correctly. Working on getting the Plugin working on UI7, tech support trying to figure out the plugin bugs.

thanks[/quote]

Correct right now it basically a latching relay and you need a momentary (quick on then back off again to reset, like when you push then release the button on the wall) The Garage door plugin does this for you. Problem is I don’t think the MIMOlite plugin works correctly on UI7 yet as I think you have found out. I think right now the mimolite plugin is not creating your child devices right? The sensor for the door doesn’t show up? Same as in this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,30342.msg216419.html#msg216419

I just check and the " Garage door plugin" does work on ui7. See the end of this thread.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,26833.0.html

Don’t try and use the “MIMOlite Garage Door” plugin. That one is no good.[/quote]

So yes I have found out that the plugins do not really work, and the one that does really needs the childs to be created or it doesn’t work properly either.[/quote]

I have worked with VERA on this in the past. Marc at vera responed that the creator of the Mimolite plugin only had a vera 2 which doesn’t support ui7. He was working with him on getting him an EDGE to allow him to work on updating his plugin to work with UI7. Until that happens non of the MIMO’s are fully functional with ui7.

What does work is the main relay only. So in theory you could use a another door sensor as a sensor input. I currently use my alarm panel and the doors all had sensors already. So I’m not using the mimolite input.

I know you may not want to spend the money, but you could also buy a battery powered wireless z-wave door sensor and attach that to the door as a temporary solution. After the plugin becomes working you can take that off and use it for something else (another door or window) you might already have in mind.

This would provide you a working “Garage Door Plugin” right now and down the road provide you with an extra door sensor.

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I’m having similar issues. I installed the MIMOlite and the garage door sensor. I can send a pulse to open/close the door, but there’s no indication whether the door is actually open or closed … which kind of defeats the point of having the garage door under Vera control. I’ve tested the door sensor using both the LED on the MIMOlite, and by installing the MIMOlite plugin, and I know that the hardware works. (I’m getting an analog sensor reading > 2,000 when the door is open, and a reading just about zero when it’s closed.)

  1. Is there a different plugin that works in UI7?
  2. Is it possible to open another child process to read the sensor? I could live with two devices, one for control and the other to tell if the door was up.
  3. Is there any progress on this plugin with UI7?

Regards,
-BW

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[quote=“drawbars, post:9, topic:185605”]I’m having similar issues. I installed the MIMOlite and the garage door sensor. I can send a pulse to open/close the door, but there’s no indication whether the door is actually open or closed … which kind of defeats the point of having the garage door under Vera control. I’ve tested the door sensor using both the LED on the MIMOlite, and by installing the MIMOlite plugin, and I know that the hardware works. (I’m getting an analog sensor reading > 2,000 when the door is open, and a reading just about zero when it’s closed.)

  1. Is there a different plugin that works in UI7?
  2. Is it possible to open another child process to read the sensor? I could live with two devices, one for control and the other to tell if the door was up.
  3. Is there any progress on this plugin with UI7?

Regards,
-BW[/quote]

Uhhh it sounds like you didn’t install the Mimolite Plugin, which creates 3 child devices for different uses.

So after you install the MIMOlite you only get one device with is only the relay to open and close. After you install the mimolite plugin (vera app store) it will create the child devices. The one you need is the binary device that will read the open and close of the door. In ui5 I think it was a door icon now I think its a motion icon in ui7 if I remember right.

You now have you two sensors you will use.

Install the “GARAGE DOOR PLUGIN” (not the mimolite one) and use the device numbers from the binary sensor child and the relay (parent) device to tie everything together. I have 4 of these on an EDGE in ui7 working good.

EDIT: almost forgot after you install the MIMOlite Plugin you need to go into the device and tell it the MIMOlite parent device number of one or more then one mimo’s you have. It will only create the children after you tell it which device or devices to make the children for. All this should be in the help on the plugin tho.