You can find new garage door openers with internet gateways for around $160 (http://www.homedepot.com/p/Chamberlain-Premium-MyQ-1-2-HP-Belt-Drive-Garage-Door-Opener-with-Gateway-HD520EVG/206179084 ) . The garage door opener is 20 years old, so I am not sure spending $85 on a remote opener is a good investment.
There is an RF Arduino solution, that may be cheaper, and could do more. Probably a little more technical, but nothing really to wire into the garage,
1/16/16 - Updated to reflect recent ST IDE nomenclature changes and v2 SmartThings Phone App image.
Just a heads up - The current Arduino IDE 1.6.6 has a bug in it which throws a compiler error (invalid namespace) when trying to build ST_Anything. Please continue to use v1.6.5 until 1.6.7 is released. You can use the latest “Hourly Build” of the 1.6.7 IDE as well, since I have confirmed the bug has been fixed in that version, as of 11/28/15.
I am happy to share with the SmartThings Community a project that my son and I have been working on for the past two weeks - ST_Anything! Our goal was to make it as easy as possible for anyone with some Arduino hardware/software skills to be able to get a new “Device” up and running in a matter of minutes versus hours/days. We have implemented many…
There is a downside with remote only, the remote does not know the state of the door (open/close) so you will also need a tilt or open/close sensor. With the internet gateway it knows if its open or closed.
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