Based on your last post you are not using my DH. The name is not “my z-wave garage door opener” it is “RG Linear GD00Z Garage Door Opener - V2”. Based on the name you provide you are using Garyd9 version and if you look in that version on/off are ignored.
Switch to my DH and it should start working for you.
im still going through the posts but had to jump ahead and ask if this DEVICE HANDLER has a notification feature where if the garage door has been open for xxx minutes/hours??
we have a new kid driving and we do not trust him able to remember closing the garage door hence my plan of getting the Z-WAVE garage door opener instead of just a garage remote.
thanks for the reply… ill go back up to the previous posts now.
The function you ask about. Isn’t generally a feature of a device handler. Think of a device handler similar to a device driver. It tells the system how to communicate with a particular device and abstracts the uniqueness of that device so the system can ‘handle’ it.
Now once you handle the device you will want to do things with your device. You can use built-in functionality, in this case possibly a routine that says when this person leaves (kid with ST installed on phone as presence sensor) do this thing.(close garage door). Or you could use a smart app to autoclose the door (search for Rboy, garage door) other you could go totally DIY and roll your own with WebCoRE. (a piston that does exactly what you ask isn’t very difficult to write.)
Orrrr you could do it the old fashioned way and take the keys away for a week when he does it.
Following what @nathancu advised… I have been using Idle Garage Door for over a year now, and it does basically what you’re after. We have ours setup to auto-close when one of us leaves (through native ST triggers), and to warn us (once) if it’s been open 15 minutes (through the app).
I wrote the Idle Garage Door smartapp ( [RELEASE] Idle Garage Door ) to do just what you’re after. It uses a garage door opener and a motion sensor to determine whether the garage should go down after a period of time. I might tweak it later this week to add notifications if the door didn’t go down after the command has been issued (if something’s blocking it for instance).
ecstatic. just ordered the GOCONTROL garage opener.
so this means id have to also get a motion sensor for your smartapp to work? now, this will be a task to ponder on. ive used a smartthings, fibaro, and a gocontrol motion sensor but im not really convinced im super happy using them especially the smartthings motion sensor which drains its battery faster.
any suggestions on a motion sensor that works best on your smart app?
Any motion sensor you like will work. I have a plugged in Aeotec Motion Sensor 6 (or 5) that’s worked flawlessly. The motion detector is used to determine if someone’s using the garage, so it won’t close on you as you approach the garage, are trying to leave, you’re coming and going a lot, etc. After the last motion event, the timer starts
Not really. Mines is at the back of the garage, mounted about a foot higher than the light switch, pointed at the doors itself. That way it has as much visibility of the garage and who might be coming or going.
Looks like the code for this is defining a “Door Control”, and not a “Garage Door Control” which my app is looking for. I believe the author needs to extend that capability, which from the docs look to be the same:
I’m trying to be able to open and close my garage door with my google home. I installed this and it appears that my device is the new type as outlined, and my GH says that it’s Activating or Turning On “Garage” but it doesn’t actually do anything.
I can confirm that the Type is My Z-Wave Garage Door Opener. Should the device have noticably changed in the phone app or on the web hub?
EDIT: I tried setting this up with IFTTT and I get the same deal. I have authorized IFTTT to control my Garage Door that shows as a Switch and my Garage Door that shows as a Contact Sensor. When I’m in ST, I see the the following Current States:
switch: off
contact: closed
door: closed
I take that to mean that if I set IFTTT to turn on my garage door switch when I tell my GH to “Open the garage door” that an ON switch is equal to an OPEN garage door. However, when I tried that, it does the same thing as without IFTTT or the enhanced My Z-Wave Garage Door Opener device type.