Garage door opener

Not sure how handy or comfortable you are with doing this but I recently redid my whole garage door setup and love it. I had a myq setup and it was just a pain. No only does it rely on cloud connectivity, the thing would always drop off the network and according to their support they claim it doesn't work well with mesh networks. So I pulled it all out.
I did something like in the video below. Picked up a relay, and used a inovelli outdoor two plug zwave outlet to control the doors independently. I also soldered the relay directly to some extra remotes which allowed me to have the setup located inside the house by my rack and also allowed me to get around the myq "lockout" which prevents some of these other solutions from working.

The door status sensors I use are the xiaomi tilt sensors. I feel like I'm one of the few that have luck with these but any contact or tilt sensor can be used really.

The plus is that this solution is all local (zwave, wifi or zigbee depending on what switch you want to use). Its cheaper than these other solutions and you can add as many doors as you want. Works with my alexa/siri (through hubitat integration) with no limits. Doesn't have that annoying sound when closing (though I may add it back just a shorter version later).

The cons is that it requires a bit of work to throw together but not really a lot and creating rules etc can be confusing. I ended up just writing a basic app for my garage doors.

In the end I'm really happy I did it. I was looking at the gocontrol but when pricing it out I needed to get two units which was starting to run me $250. This was much cheaper.

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