Garage Door Openers not working with Routines

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Not really, that’s about it. Just check your routine if it has any condition setup, like specific modes to operate in etc which may prevent it from running. The other way would be to create backup for your routines in CoRE which can check if the garage door closed or not when the routine executed and if not then go in and close it.

This is actually a common enough of a problem that we built an app to do this.

[RELEASE] Mode Change Actions - Open/Close Door/Window/Switch/Lock/Valve/Shade Notification and Actions on Mode Change

This Mode Based Actions app checks the status of devices on a hub Mode change, notifies you and even changes their state if they aren’t in a desired state When the hub changes Mode, the app will check and notify you if the device (door/window/switch/lock/garage/valve/window shade etc) is open/closed, on/off etc and also change it’s state (turn on/off/open/close) for you. This can also act like a backup for a failed/incomplete Routine execution [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] KEY FEATURES: Report and change state these types of devices (turn on/off, open/close etc) individually for each Mode Doors/windows Locks Garage doors Valves Blinds/shades (with level setting) Delayed checking to allow time for Routines to execute or devices to change state after the Mode chan…