Openhab Garage Door Opener

2 switches for feedback for open and closed messages.

Openhab garage door opener.

Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api. I tapped into the buttons on the wall and ran a pair of wires to the relayboard and connected them to common and normally open. The controlling is done in one topic. If you have multiple garage door openers and or lights the device index is based on the order the garage door opener light s were added to the myq app.

For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. I regularly do that remotely e g. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface. I added a string item for the actual command to open or close the door.

There is already a binding available for openhab 1 works on 2 so you can know your home made device will work with openhab. Hooray for open source. Or you can pre order a pre built one. Chamberlain 1 25 hp myq secure view and ultra bright smart belt drive garage door opener with myq and wi fi compatibility and battery back up and led light and camera s item 1630354 model b6765.

When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. Currently have a chamberlain garage door opener and was using the myq add on to control it through openhab but they keep changing the api which renders the add on useless. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. My config settings.

Looking for ideas what and how to use to add. Rule a garage opener was triggered when item agarageopener1 received command or item agarageopener2 received command then var topic triggeringitem name substring 1 cmd sendcommand topic on loginfo logname garage opener triggeringitem name substring triggeringitem name length 1 was triggered if vnetwork cerberos state off this is a network binding item that goes off when the rpi goes offline aalert sendcommand attempting to trigger a garage opener but the. My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled. A switch to open close the door.