Same here. I know there were some issues on units a couple of years ago where failure of the warning led caused the units to no longer open/close. I haven't been affected by that and my unit has been rock solid. I'd definitely buy again if I needed another.
Hi there
Did you get to try this, did it work?
Did anyone tried Aeotec Z-Wave Plus garage door controller, is there any issues using it with Hubitat?
Hi @sruty9
I did try it. I bought the peanut plug and it connected to hubitat while in my kitchen for testing. It took some time to do the rest. When i did the rest of the setup and moved peanut plug to the garage since i think was 40 feet away from the hubitat hub something happened and peanut plug got disconnected from the hub. In general peanut plugs were designed to work with Almond router. But they can connect directly too to hubitat. While i think the setup would still work the temporary setback in my setup is not fixed up yet since i need to find the time to troibleshoot it.
For anyone trying this my only suggestion is to get better smart outlet plug than peanut plug which is better supported in hubitat.
During my first attempt to set this up it did actually work as i controlled the garage door by setting the state of the device to on or off. But then i think the distance to the hub messed it up
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I know this post is a bit old, but I've set this up and have had zero issues. My only real issue is setting this up on the Dashboard. I'd like to have one button that actuates and utilizes the state of the garage door.
Setup:
- Smart outlet with relay to garage door opener (I used the same instructions in the video posted by iskren.p.petkov except a smart outlet in lieu of peanut).
- Cheap z-wave window sensor for state of garage door (open/closed)
Does anyone have a solution for the Dashboard? I'd like to use the "Garage Door (control)" template on the Dashboard, but I'd like to use the sensors to update the state of the template/button (green when closed, red when opened).
Hubitat Devices:
- Garage Door Control Outlet (smart outlet)
- Garage Door Sensor (window sensor)
- Virtual Garage Door (virtual switch)
So far, I have the following rules:
- Close Garage Door
- When switched to "on", if Garage Door Sensor is "open", turn on Garage Door Control Outlet.
- Garage Door Outlet Auto-off
- This simply turns off the smart outlet (which actuates the garage door opener) after 1 second.
- Make Sure Garage Door Closes
- Since I do not know if the actuation is closing or opening the garage door, this basically just waits 15 seconds, checks the garage door sensor to make sure it's closed and, if not, actuates the garage door again (by turning on the smart outlet again).
Unfortunately, I have two buttons on my dashboard. I have one that shows the state (open/closed using the Garage Door template), and the other is the Virtual Garage Door to actuate the Garage Door Control Outlet using the switch template.
Any ideas on how I could combine these two?
There's a Garage Door Hybrid driver that you can perhaps use via RM to combine the disparate devices into one virtual device.
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Thank you! I'll give this a shot. Appreciate it!
I am considering changing my traditional panel rollup door to a door that rolls up like a window roller shade. https://www.smartgarage.ca/
It seems that the garadget's laser method would work fine with this type of door too. It gets around the problem that tilt sensors can't be used on a door that rolls up on itself. Am I right about that?
Anybody aware of a z wave laser sensor? I'm thinking I could possibly make my own with a 1-sided beam break sensor and a z wave dry contact module. (I say "possibly" not from experience, just having read a few posts.). Am I on the right track? Any advice?
I rolled my own for less than the price of a beer.
a) Sonoff relay, etch-cut and soldered to make it a dry-contact relay, loaded with Tasmota.
b) A magnetic-reed door/window sensor mounted on the door, with the magnet attached to an old hinge mounted directly above the sensor. When the door is open, the hinge hangs "open" (straight down), and the magnet is out of range for the sensor, which detects "open". When closed, the hinge is "closed" and the magnet is near the sensor, which reads "closed".
The SonOff must be toggled momentarily for a half-second or so, as it is wired in parallel with the garage wall pushbutton. The SonOff is mounted next to the garage pushbutton, so only a few inches of wire was needed.
The "programming" required was minimal. Event Engine or Rule Machine is all one needs.
This approach works with any garage door opener, of course.
Excellent, thanks. This has given me some ideas. Any chance you could post a pic of how you mounted the hinge and sensor?
@ ezeedub
Here are photos:
Above, door is closed, so hinge is vertical, and magnet is near door/window sensor, so it reports "closed". Clear packing tape is my paranoia, as door vibration might shake open the cheap plastic case, and drop the battery down on the paintwork of a 1952 MG TD. Same for the twist-tie wire on the magnet. Yes, it is glued, and it is also a Neodymium magnet (NdFeB), so it has a very tight grip on the steel hinge, but as the Insane Clown Posse sang "Magnets - How do they work?"`
Above is the hinge in the "open" position, which will happen naturally when the door goes up, and along the ceiling, of course.
Pretty basic.
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@ mircolino You do not need custom code, all you need to do is to move the wire on the screw terminal between "NC" and "NO", and you will reverse the logic in hardware - "NC" = Normally Closed "NO" = Normally Open. Leave "COM" be, that's the "common", called "ground" where most folks come from.
Yes it should be fine with that. As long as you can stick a sticker to it. You just need reflective tape on there.
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But effective! Thanks for posting. I was imagining the hinge attached to the door frame and the sensor on the door, and was wondering how reliable that would be, but this is much simple (aka better).
I "modified" an ecolink Door & Window sensor, added a mercury switch. Works great.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5HB4U5/
More expensive but very easy.
Also this using a different Ecolink sensor:
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Well, if you want to know if the door is open even a little, then you must mount the hinge and sensor at the very tip-top of the garage door, so they will travel through the curve of the track when the door is open only a small amount.
My garage door motor has all the safety crap add-ons, so if the door bangs on something, the motor reverses, and opens the door all the way, and blinks its light in alarm, so I have a binary-state garage door. 
I have a Old liftmaster commercial opener in my garage. I use 2 Mimo zwave switches with my Hubitat. One for open one for close. I just paralleled the open and close buttons at the opener and works like a charm. I am new to using Hubitat but that is the work around I came up with.
I just did my garage door with the zooz multi relay module. I already had wires into the house from the garage door controller using some old alarm sensor wires the previous home owner had setup. I put the zooz relay near the old alarm panel inside and connected the wires to opener.
I got a sengled zigbee contact sensor and stuck it to the side of the garage door, the magnet is on the door the sensor is on the frame of the house.
Setup the sensor before doing the zooz and they have a garage door device on their site using a custom driver. Works great and it connects with the sensor to show open/closed status. The sensor will show if the door is open even a little because the magnet moves out of alignment from the sensor.
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If you want simple and easy to install, with a ton of features, NO monthly fee like MyQ and works off a single unit for up to three garage doors, look into Tailwind. I bought one and love it. It works excellent and the geofencing works very well. (Much better than the Hubitat app). I cant say enough good stuff about them. Their support is excellent as well.
I have a Chamberlain MyQ belt driven garage door opener which connects to my home WiFi and will send me a message if I leave the door open for too long. I can open, close, or check the garage door status via the MyQ app on my phone. Unfortunately, the MyQ system isn't officially supported by HE. As a backup system I do have a tilt sensor on the garage door and some rules set up to inform me if the garage door has been left open for more than 15 mins.
