OK I need a little help with my garage door application. I have the Linear Z Wave Relay as well as a multi attached to the door. It opens and closes fine when I use the iPhone app and the open/close state works appropriately. Here is what I’d like to do.
I leave before my wife in the mornings. I’d like for the garage door to close when I leave and then close again when my wife leaves. Then I’d like for it to open when each of us comes home. Seems simple enough I think.
Now I’ve tried using some of the modified Ridiculously Automated Garage Door apps but I have two questions.
What is this used for and what would typical values be
input "openThreshold", "number", title: "Warn when open longer than (optional)",description: "Number of minutes", required: false
And what is this used for and also what would typical values be
section("False alarm threshold (defaults to 10 min)") {
input "falseAlarmThreshold", "number", title: "Number of minutes", required: false
Here is the entire code for the app.
/**
* Ridiculously Automated Garage Door - Modified
*
* Author: SmartThings
* Date: 2013-03-10
* Modified by chrisb
* Date: 2013-09-04
*
* Monitors arrival and departure of car(s) and
*
* 1) opens door when car arrives,
* 2) closes door after car has departed (for N minutes),
* ---- 3) opens door when car door motion is detected, ---- For people who do not have a mutli to use in the car, this part removed.
* ---- 4) closes door when door was opened due to arrival and interior door is closed. ---- this part removed as well.
*/
// Automatically generated. Make future change here.
definition(
name: "Open and Close Garage Door",
namespace: "",
author: "Greg Harris",
description: "Open",
iconUrl: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience.png",
iconX2Url: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience@2x.png")
preferences {
section("Garage door") {
input "doorSensor", "capability.contactSensor", title: "Which sensor?"
input "doorSwitch", "capability.momentary", title: "Which switch?"
input "openThreshold", "number", title: "Warn when open longer than (optional)",description: "Number of minutes", required: false
input "phone", "phone", title: "Warn with text message (optional)", description: "Phone Number", required: false
}
section("Car(s) using this garage door") {
input "cars", "capability.presenceSensor", title: "Presence sensor", description: "Which car(s)?", multiple: true, required: false
}
section("False alarm threshold (defaults to 10 min)") {
input "falseAlarmThreshold", "number", title: "Number of minutes", required: false
}
}
def installed() {
log.trace "installed()"
subscribe()
}
def updated() {
log.trace "updated()"
unsubscribe()
subscribe()
}
def subscribe() {
log.debug "present: ${cars.collect{it.displayName + ': ' + it.currentPresence}}"
subscribe(doorSensor, "contact", garageDoorContact)
subscribe(cars, "presence", carPresence)
}
def doorOpenCheck()
{
final thresholdMinutes = openThreshold
if (thresholdMinutes) {
def currentState = doorSensor.currentState("contact")
log.debug "doorOpenCheck"
if (currentState?.value == "open") {
log.debug "open for ${now() - currentState.date.time}, openDoorNotificationSent: ${state.openDoorNotificationSent}"
if (!state.openDoorNotificationSent && now() - currentState.date.time > thresholdMinutes * 60 *1000) {
def msg = "${doorSwitch.displayName} was been open for ${thresholdMinutes} minutes"
log.info msg
sendPush msg
if (phone) {
sendSms phone, msg
}
state.openDoorNotificationSent = true
}
}
else {
state.openDoorNotificationSent = false
}
}
}
def carPresence(evt)
{
log.info "$evt.name: $evt.value"
// time in which there must be no "not present" events in order to open the door
final openDoorAwayInterval = falseAlarmThreshold ? falseAlarmThreshold * 60 : 600
if (evt.value == "present") {
// A car comes home
def car = getCar(evt)
def t0 = new Date(now() - (openDoorAwayInterval * 1000))
def states = car.statesSince("presence", t0)
def recentNotPresentState = states.find{it.value == "not present"}
if (recentNotPresentState) {
log.debug "Not opening ${doorSwitch.displayName} since car was not present at ${recentNotPresentState.date}, less than ${openDoorAwayInterval} sec ago"
}
else {
if (doorSensor.currentContact == "closed") {
openDoor()
sendPush "Opening garage door due to arrival of ${car.displayName}"
state.appOpenedDoor = now()
}
else {
log.debug "door already open"
}
}
}
else {
// A car departs
if (doorSensor.currentContact == "open") {
closeDoor()
log.debug "Closing ${doorSwitch.displayName} after departure"
sendPush("Closing ${doorSwitch.displayName} after departure")
}
else {
log.debug "Not closing ${doorSwitch.displayName} because its already closed"
}
}
}
def garageDoorContact(evt)
{
log.info "garageDoorContact, $evt.name: $evt.value"
if (evt.value == "open") {
schedule("0 * * * * ?", "doorOpenCheck")
}
else {
unschedule("doorOpenCheck")
}
}
private openDoor()
{
if (doorSensor.currentContact == "closed") {
log.debug "opening door"
doorSwitch.push()
}
}
private closeDoor()
{
if (doorSensor.currentContact == "open") {
log.debug "closing door"
doorSwitch.push()
}
}
private getCar(evt)
{
cars.find{it.id == evt.deviceId}
}
Thanks in advance