Iād been using a Genie Aladdin WiFi garage for the past few years but a recent update on Genieās side made me want to shift to local control. It was way easier than I thought so I put together the steps I followed in case it helps any of you out. Some of the diagrams I was finding made it seem complicated, but itās as easy as plugging in a USB charger cable and swapping 2 wires from the Genie WiFi to a Zooz relay.
This walkthrough is intended for folks that want to migrate from the Genie Aladdin WiFi adapter to z-wave local control. Apologies if this isnāt the right place to post this. This info was in a few different threads so I was hoping to consolidate this to make it easy for future folks.
If you have only 1 or 2 Genie garage doors with an Aladdin WiFi adapter, this migration should take you about 20-30 minutes. Do this at your own risk, etc etc.
First, youāll need the following:
- Zooz Zen 17 universal relay: https://a.co/d/6B8VaTe
- Zoos ZSE43 Tilt sensor: https://a.co/d/1WImhrz
- 5V 1A USB charge plug (I repurposed a spare Wyze cam plug): https://a.co/d/fsGLd0s
- (Optional & recommended) Dome z-wave siren: https://a.co/d/dNtIpV1
Steps:
- Unplug your garage power
- Unplug your existing Genie WiFi adapter from power.
- Unplug the white cables that connect the Genie WiFi adapter to your garage door - just remove these from the WiFi adapter, leave the other end plugged in to your garage door opener, we will reuse these with the Zooz Zen 17.
- Plug your USB charge plug wherever you had your Genie WiFi plugged in.
- Connect the included USB cable into the Zooz and follow the pairing instructions.
- Hubitat has a built in driver which will get selected.
- In the Hubitat driver for the relay change āinput relay 1ā to āgarage doorā and āinput trigger for relay 1ā to āenabledā
- Pair your Zooz ZSE43 tilt sensor. It had a built in Hubitat driver.
- In the Hubitat driver for the sensor, I set mine to LED Indicator: tilt sensor. Shock Sensitivity: low. Enabled sensors: tilt sensorā
- Take the two left-over wires from your old Genie WiFi adapter and insert them into R1 āNOā and R1 āCā (I put the black striped wired into āCā) (refer to this diagram: ignore everything other then Switch 1 How to Use the ZEN17 Universal Relay as a Garage Door Opener - Zooz Support Center )
- Plug your power for your door back in.
- You can now test your door by going to the child device and click āonā. Your door should open/close respectively. The switch auto toggles off after a few seconds.
- Adhere the tilt sensor to your garage door
- Install this set of apps/driver: [RELEASE] Zooz Garage Door Opener itās very easy to use to set up a garage door that links your Zen 17 with the tilt sensor.
- The Garage Door device that gets created from the community driver is what you want to use with dashboards, rules, etc.
- (Optional) set up the Dome alarm to give an alert a few seconds before opening and closing just like your old Genie WiFi door had. Iām waiting for shipment of my siren so I canāt comment on this bit just yet.
Because weāre repurposing the original wires from the Genie WiFi install, this was a lot easier than I expected.
