Garage door - Am I missig something

[cmfraz (Curtis Frazier)]

So I have a relay and a tilt sensor in my garage. On the Door & Locks page I have my garage door shortcut that works great, shows the status and I can tap to change.

However on my Things page, I see the sensor as a regular a door and the relay that says off. My husband is always confused what that “door” is. How can I change the icon? (I’d also like to change the doors to doors and the mailbox to something too.)

[ehoffman73 (Eric)]

I just had a related question…how did you get the Doors & Locks page to show the shortcut? I had to remove my relay and re-add to ST because it stopped responding. It used to have a shortcut in Doors & Locks, and I can’t recall how to get it back in there.

I have the above situation in things, and I basically have my wife not go in the garage GROUP I created…she uses (or would use) the shortcuts in Doors & Locks.

I change icons by going into preferences after hitting the gears.

[JDRoberts]

This FAQ explains shortcut groups (they’re not intuitive):

Setting up Shortcut Groups in the Old Mobile App (Not Used After Sept. 2015)

SHORTCUT GROUPS WERE REPLACED IN THE SEPTEMBER 2015 VERSION OF THE MOBILE APP BY “SMART LIGHTS,” AN EVEN MORE POWERFUL AND MUCH MORE INTUITIVE WAY OF SETTING UP LIGHTING RULES. I will leave this post up for a few more weeks to give everyone time to transition over to the new mobile app. But pretty much everything below this line will no longer apply once you do you have the new mobile app version. Instead, see the “How to Group Lights” article in the community-created wiki. http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Group_Lights_Together One of the most powerful features in the SmartThings mobile app is the use of Shortcut Groups. There are literally dozens of built in features for scheduling groups, from “turn off after X minutes” to “turn on when someo…

And this post from GaryD9 explains how they work for garage doors.

[OBSOLETE] Enhanced Z-wave garage door opener code (for Linear GD00Z and variants)

Thank you that is a neat feature I was unaware of. When I go to the locks section under action and then choose ‘add a connected lock to an existing or new door…’ and i choose a garage door and then go to select a device the linear controller does not show up. If I understood the script correctly (i’m no groovy dev) this is supposed to allow the bypass of the sometimes finicky tilt sensor that is included with the main linear controller and essentially make it a switch so that it will open / close as if you were using a normal garage door button opener. If I am incorrect please let me know. Thanks again for your help.

Hopefully those will help.

[cmfraz (Curtis Frazier)]

From the dashboard, use the plus sign to add something new > switches and dimmer > select a relay (like the Evolve Z-Wave LFM-20) > Top Alets and Actions > use "Door Garage Control by ST.

Should sove your issue

[ehoffman73 (Eric)]

FWIW, it just decided to show up again about 90 minutes later after I thought I had it done right.

Just another day! But still LOVE my ST install.