Wayne Dalton WDHA-12R Home Link / Zwave bridge

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Has anyone been able to get a Wayne Dalton WDHA-12R to pair and work with Hubitat? I'd really love to get this device to work. It would be very nice to be able to push a Home Link button in my car and trigger a scene or event in Hubitat. Thanks for any info.

Here's a link to the device on Amazon:

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I actually have a homelink button set up in my car to activate my arrival "routine" in my HE setup. What i purchased was one of these:

(it's currently listed as unavailable but any 315 mhz receiver will work, like this one)

I think wired the output from that receive to a contact sensor. You can use any contact sensor that has external contact wiring available. Then, using the remote that was included with the receiver, I programmed by home link button in my car. And voila! Whenever I press the button in the car, the contact reads as open. I can use this as a trigger in RM. Not a direct answer to your question but it is an alternative solution that has worked well for me. And this has worked for home links in 4 different cars, 2 chevys, a ford and a subaru.

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Thanks for the reply. I'll check it out.

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One of the guys on the SmartThings forum had a pretty good write-up on the limitations of the Wayne Dalton device. My recollection is someone did come up with a pretty complex hardware hack. Suggest searching that forum using the device name. If more comes to me I will add . . . It was a long time ago.

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Has anyone been able to get a Wayne Dalton WDHA-12R to pair and work with Hubitat?

Yes! Apologies for bumping this old thread with a long post, but I landed here early in my journey to get my WDHA-12 gateway working with Hubitat, so figured I'd tack on my success story.

I got a WDHA-12 device off eBay a while back and after many, many false starts, I finally got it working with Hubitat last month. FWIW, my unit doesn't call itself WDHA-12R, just WDHA-12, but I imagine they are similar enough. I could only find a manual PDF online for the WDHA-12R (e.g., Wayne-Dalton WDHA-12R User's Manual : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive), and it seemed like the relevant bits worked for my WDHA-12.

My goal was the same as @kingpumpkin - push a Home Link button in my car and trigger something in Hubitat. At first, I thought I could detect button presses (on the gateway's Z-Wave side, triggered by HomeLink) after adding the gateway as a Z-Wave device, but I could never get that to work. Then I read the manual over and over and decided to play to the gateway's strengths, configuring it as a secondary scene controller. So, I figured I could use a spare Z-Wave outlet as something for the gateway to control, then have Hubitat respond to the outlet turning on/off as the trigger for the automation I cared about.

But, it turns out that the gateway just doesn't understand some of my Z-Wave devices (like a new Minoston MP21Z smart plug), so I couldn't get the gateway to control it at all. Maybe it's too old? Or not a supported device type? It was hard to find any details about what particular things it actually supports, and it's long discontinued.

Anyway, I found that the gateway did understand my UltraPro Z-Wave light switches, so I came up with a hacky solution:

  • HomeLink button 1 activates the gateway's scene 1.
  • Scene 1 turns on a light switch in a rarely used room.
  • If the door to that room is closed when the light comes on, trigger my automation, and turn off the light again.

Soooo... the automation doesn't work if the door to that door is open, or the light is already on. And if you're in the room with the door closed and you turn on the light, the automation is triggered and the light will turn itself off again. But hey, it works well enough for my purposes. (Makes me think of xkcd: Workflow).

Back to the WDHA-12. Here are my final steps as I remember them (referencing page numbers in the PDF linked above):

  1. Factory-reset the gateway, just in case (page 13):
    • hold buttons for Scene 1, 2, and 3 simultaneously for ~3 seconds, until the LEDs flash
  2. With a battery in, but no AC power, add the gateway as a secondary scene controller (page 11):
    • bring the gateway near Hubitat hub and hold buttons Scene 1 and COPY for ~3 seconds; when the LEDs flash, release COPY, but keep holding Scene 1
    • within 20 seconds, start Z-Wave inclusion on Hubitat. You should see more LED activity on the gateway as Z-Wave network details are copied over.
    • when the LEDs stop flashing, and the Z-Wave inclusion is done, you can let go of the Scene 1 button
    • I don't think the Z-Wave device in Hubitat for the gateway matters all that much at this point; the important thing is to copy over the network info.
  3. Add your target Z-Wave device to a scene on the gateway (while it's on battery power only) (page 4):
    • hold the Scene button until its LED goes on, off, then on again
    • keep holding it as you activate the target device (e.g., turn on a light switch)
    • if the scene LED on the gateway flashes 3 times, you've programmed it. Let go of the Scene button. If there's no LED reaction, it didn't work.
    • test the scene - press the Scene button to make sure the device does what you programmed. By default, the Scene 3 button turns off all devices (or the last scene? not sure exactly), so you can test that too.
  4. Program a HomeLink button (battery-power only) (page 6):
    • hold the gateway 3 inches from the HomeLink transmitter
    • hold the HomeLink button until the lights indicate its ready to program (slow flash, or solid light)
    • hold the gateway's Scene 1 button
    • keep holding buttons on both devices until HomeLink lights flash rapidly or turn off, then release both buttons
    • hold the gateway Scene button you programmed earlier until the light turns off
    • hold the HomeLink button until the gateway scene light flashes three times
    • test it - the HomeLink button should trigger the scene
  5. Plug in the gateway somewhere convenient.
    • I put mine near my Hubitat hub, which is also near where my car approaches home.

So, that's my story. Hope it helps someone!