I haven’t had my garage door automation fail on me yet. With exception of it working too well. I gave my relative one of the ST presence sensors for him to drop by and check on my house. Well lo and behold, I was home and he drove by my street corner…And triggered the garage to open for him. ST pushed a notification that he drove by. LOL.
Other than that, have not had it go off since I posted my own project on ST forum.
This happened to me once a few weeks ago. I was at work and a “Garage Acceleration Active” notification popped up on my phone. That only happens when the garage is opening/closing, or there is heavy wind. It was windy that day, but I checked my security cameras and sure enough, the garage was opening. Talk about a freak out moment. My garage is behind a gate in the back of my house, but it still was unsettling. ST support also said it was a physical button that activated it, but that is impossible. I don’t have IFTTT, so that couldn’t have been the cause. They sent some sort of update to my hub (V1…I have a V2 hub in the box, but refuse to go through the hassle of 120+ devices), and I’ll just keep an eye on it for now.
I still stand behind my recommendation: Add a Smart Plug or an Outlet which turns off the Garage Door mechanism to your automation. I am telling you. It is a peace of mind for me and my wife…And I can still control my garage from the other side of the world if I want to let some one in.
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You’re absolutely right @lmosenko . I do that for my Amazon Echos, so why not the garage door. Done and Done.
Also setup a custom rule in Home Monitoring to notify you when the Smart Plug is On or Off!
Check out my automation:
This happened to me again, sort of. After the last time it happened I added a surge protector (just incase that was the issue) to plug the LFM-20 into as well as a rule to tell me anytime the opener becomes active, asking if I expected it.
Today I got a notification that the opener ran, and I didn’t expect it. Logs say that it was a physical push, which is impossible. And even stranger is that the door didn’t even open.
Regardless, I’m unplugging the LFM-20 and plan to uninstall it. Might try for the Iris one next.
So - be warned about the LFM-20.
This has been going on since the very beginning of SmartThings. Back in the beginning my garage door would open sometimes twice a day and would happen 2 to 3 days a week. The problem just would go on and on, and like you, support would claim someone pushed the button on the device. Of course that was impossible in my case as the LFM-20 was installed in the ceiling. Then support said my switch was defective so I laid out more money and bought another one. The replacement switch acted the same way. The problem would come in waves. Starting out from once in a while to twice a day then subsiding back to only a few times a month.
In my case the problem stopped over a year and a half ago. Nobody seems to know what causes it to happen but you certainly are not alone. Search the forum and you will find others talking about it, just not recently.
Yes, thanks. I have reported it myself in this thread before. I was just trying to state that I do think it is the device that is the issue.
In 20 years in this house, I think we only ever left the garage open twice… nothing was taken. Given all the issues folks are having with garages, I think that despite the temptation to add it into my automation the “smart thing” will be to resist that temptation.
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This happened with my garage door last Friday.
I went out in the morning and closed the door as I drove off.
When I arrived home about 90 minutes later my wife informed me that the door opened a few times while I was away.
I am using a Linear FS20Z-1 relay and an Ecolink Door sensor. I also have a Rule Machine rule that says: close the door after it has been open 20 minutes.
After checking the logs, I saw that this rule kept getting tripped at 20 minute intervals.
I deleted this rule and the problem stopped. Hasn’t happened again.
I am not ready to claim that the rule caused the problem. The fact that the door hasn’t opened on its own again may just be coincidental. I had this rule in place for a couple weeks before last Friday without any issues.
It may be that the door sensor continually showed the door as open even when it was closed(and thus tripped the 20 min rule), but the logs don’t appear to indicate this.
Hi All,
I only had my garage door open once on its own. And that time it was due to my dad driving by my house and he had the ST SmartSense presence device.
I reaffirm my recommendation from my own Project Post. Use a Smart Outlet to turn off the garage door opener completely when not in use. This will protect you from the Zwave relay misfiring and some one with a frequency blaster opening your garage.
community.smartthings.com/t/garage-door-automation-with-linear-rellay/5975
Funny, I started with ST because my dad would drive off leaving the garage door open all day. I have had Evolve LFM-20 installed and working for 2 years. Twice it malfunctioned with “Physical Switch” press while I was away. The first time my door tilt sensor went off at 2am and siren woke me up. Second time was today when I got home to find out it was open 6 hours. I cut the relay wires till I can come up with a solution. Is this problem with other garage door solutions or just LFM-20? I would rather replace the device than add a smart outlet in series.
Interesting, mine popped open around 4PM PST for no reason. I have another device that will close the garage after 5 minutes so not too big of a deal, but a little unsettling.
Ordered a Linear GD00Z-5 to try.
Command code for DIGITAL normal on action is 2503 but PHYSICAL on false action in logs is 2003. Maybe there is a way to sense a PHYSICAL action and reverse it. I assume that relay has some bugs or interference.
Good morning to all Misbehaving Garage Door owners,
Here is my 2 Cents.
You need to have a cut off switch as a failsafe for your garage door.
Here is my way:
- Wire the LFM-20 module to the garage remote for control.
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Connect a Smart Plug between the Garage Door opener and the outlet.
This way, when the Tilt or the ST Multi report that the garage door is in the closed state, the outlet turns off while no one is home. This is what separates myself from most people on the forum. I hear a lot of people saying the same issue. Please take my setup into account for peace of mind. And look up my old Garage Automation with LFM-20 module project. - You can also setup a rule to close the door if it ever opens between certain hours/@ Mode/while all presence are away.
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