Best Way to use a Door Sensor on a GARAGE DOOR

[Drew650 (Drew)]

I needed a new way to mount my contact sensor on my garage door, because my old method just wasn’t very reliable. Then I remembered a post on here I saw at least a year ago about using a hinge with it. So, I tried it and its working perfectly! Enjoy the video

[tuffloud1]

Why not just use a door/window contact that has an external contact input such as the Ecolink in conjunction with one of these?

[BigHoss]

I had a simiar issue with my ADT Smartthings setup and overhead door configuration. I found that the ADT sensors were REALLY sensitive to surrounding ferrous metals, and my overhead doors have non ferrous foil backed insulation installed so I came up with a hinge rig to make the sensor act as a tilt sensor. When the door goes up, the body of the sensor tilts away from the magnet and triggers an open state, it doesn’t take much to trigger it.

This setup was something i had gleaned when I was on Iris by Lowes before they shut it down, and jsut carried the idea over to SmartThings.

Anyway this thread is linked below.

ADT Smartthings garage door tilt sensor

Since no tilt sensors are available for the ADT Smartthings hub,I reused an idea I gleaned from Iris folks… simply mount the large part on a hinge such that the pivot of the hing allows movement as the door opens it swings away, and the magnet on the door. Mount to the top panel of a multi panel roll up door, by the time the door is up high enough that even a small child can squirm through the sensor shows open. Tested and it works perfectly! The materials and tools used aside from new ADT Smartthings door and window detectors are. #1. 3M 1" wide Double stick tape. #2. Segments of 1/2" Piano hinge. I had it in my shop. You can get hinges closer to the size of the sensor at Home depot, do your shopping if you would rather go this way. #3. Hacksaw to cut the piano hinge to length. #4. …