I had a contact sensor on my garage door for over a year and it worked just great. But finally the moisture got to it. So I replaced it with an Ecolink tilt sensor.
The tilt sensor was giving me double events on opening. In the driver there is a setting to "Supress Duplicate Contact Events'. I turned it on, and then it didn't work at all. Turned it back off and it started working again.
What is the purpose of that setting?
That setting works for me. I also had double events for both of my garage doors and turning that setting on reduced it to one event for each state change.
Ditto what @jimyouse said for me.
I'll keep playing with it. Maybe it was a fluke when it quit. I turned it back on and it's working now.
I agree with others, I was getting double events and that setting hides the extra events and has been working for months without a miss for me.
In case you have not already done it, place the Ecolink tilt sensor as high as possible on the top door panel. That accomplishes two things.
a. It gets the sensors above the cars and other metallic stuff for better signal transmission.
b. If you have a hinged multi-panel door, the top panel is the first to tilt when opening and the last to become vertical when closing. Thus, the sensor will respond as soon as you start to open the door and then clear only when the door is fully closed.
Just installed these. Which drivers are you using for these items?
EDIT: Also, which Dashboard item are you using?
Mine installed as generic Z-wave contact sensor. Works great. Using a standard contact template on dashboard, with a garage door icon.
Curious on rules others have made for this. Thinking of having an announcement in the evening if open over tts/Alexa, repeat every hour if still open.
Curious, are you using the generic contact sensor driver? For some reason, that’s not triggering my Alexa device notifications, while my normal door ones are.
I am not familiar with Alexa notifications...I have google devices.
I am using the Ring alarm contact sensor driver for the Ecolink tilt sensor. Some time ago people on this forum reported problems with battery issues on the Ecolink. I believe @bcopeland suggested to use the Ring alarm contact sensor driver as a temporary fix for the Ecolink tilt sensor. I think this issue was fixed, but I never changed back the driver since it works ok for me. Not sure if this will help you or not.
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