Garage Doors and Routines (all platforms, all garage tilt sensors, discuss problems with app 2 here)

[JDRoberts]

@Lgkahn

But if we come home together I’d expect both garage doors to open. Problem is even though I removed the setting so they should run regardless of what mode we are in, only one of them ever runs depending on which presence sensor it recognized first. And frequently the wrong one depending on which car we are coming home together in. Anyone have suggestions.

It’s possible that you’re running into the following known issue ( this is a clickable link):

FAQ: Routine Only Seems to Work for First Person Who Comes Home

Updated 12 November 2015 At some point, there was a change and now routines WILL run even if the house is in the mode you’re going to change into. That’s good, it’s just confusing because it’s unclear if this is now always true or only sometimes. Until there’s some official documentation, I’ll leave the rest of this in place as it’s one of those “can’t hurt, might help” things. Possibly this is a mode issue. It did exist as a problem with v one, but only with hello home actions, not with shortcut groups. It’s pretty simple once you understand what’s going on, it’s just there’s nothing anywhere that tells you that this is what’s going to happen with routines. OK if you have a routine that changes the mode, then nothing in that routine will run if the house is already in that mode. That’…

Although yours may be yet a different variation. However, I include the link as someone else might have a related issue as well.