GoControl Garage Door Opener with Chamberlain C205

[Brandon_Linton]

Hi i have 2 newer Chamberlain C205 Garage Door Openers. These have the Yellow Learn button. These units appear to be MyQ ready openers i am assuming a bridge etc. is needed? I have a GoControl Unit from a previous home and the tilt sensor reads the proper Open/Closed status via Smartthings and when i click open or close the unit flashes and makes noise but never opens or closes. Wires are all checked and proper and working etc. i am wondering if i should just get a bridge or what is the best way to get these openers working with ST?

Thanks
Brandon

[Bry (Bryan)]

I don’t know your specific opener, but the test to see if the GoControl will work is simple. Do you have two terminals on your opener that when shorted will open/close the door? If so, then the GoControl will work.

To find those two terminals, you can trace the wiring from a single button open/close device (if you have one). Take a piece of wire and short those two terminals. If the door goes up or down, use those two terminals for the GoControl.

There is a GoControl compatibility list published here somewhere.

[hotsparks (James L)]

I was under the impression that the wiring on the chamberlain wasn’t compatible. But I believe I read about a work around.

[hotsparks (James L)]

https://www.nortekcontrol.com/info/Linear-GD00Z-Product-Compatibility-Notice.pdf

[RBoy (www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)]

I was under the impression that the wiring on the chamberlain wasn’t compatible. But I believe I read about a work around.

Here is a list of compatible garage door controllers:

[RELEASE] Enhanced Linear GD00Z-4/GD00Z-5/GoControl/Iris/others Device Handler with Switch and Automated Garage Door Open/Close when People Arrive/Leave/Timer

Here is a list of garage door openers that these Linear/GoControl/Iris Z-Wave controller are likely compatible with: Manufacturer Model APC CB-SGX12 AHOUSE EM SWING GATE AHOUSE RAM 100 ALLSTAR AC9000 Series ALEKO 13XX ALEKO 22XX ALEKO AC1400 ALEKO AR1400 ALEKO AR900 ALEKO AS 1300 ALEKO AS 450 ALEKO AS 650 ALEKO AS 900 ALEKO GateGuard 1300 ALEKO GateGuard 1700 ALEKO GateGuard 450 ALEKO GateGuard 650 ALEKO GateGuard 850 ALEKO GateGuard 900 ALL-O-MATIC All O Matic SL-100 ALL-O-MATIC SL-100DC ALL-O-MATIC SL-150DC ALL-O-MATIC SL-45DC ALL-O-MATIC SL-90DC ALL-O-MATIC SW-300 ALL-O-MATIC SW-350 AVANTI T-Series Apollo 1050 Apollo 1500 Apollo 1550ETL Apollo 1650 Apollo 1650ETL Apollo 3500ETL Apollo …

You’re right the newer Chamberlain/Liftmaster digital controllers aren’t compatible directly. The workaround was to wire the GoControl device to the “wall button”.

The other option is to buy a Chamberlain gateway device and use the MyQ integration to control it through ST.

[Brandon_Linton]

ok so yea totally not compatible so purchased the MyQ Internet Gateway which is awesome it works great and does exactly what i want EXCEPT i dont see anyway integration to get this into ST? Any suedo backdoor or trick to this or did Chamberlain completely kill integration?

Thanks,
Brandon

[RBoy (www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)]

Try this app it should still work.

[hjbreese (hugh)]

Please let me know if this still works. I saw another thread from 2017 saying that Chamberlain had killed the API for this. There was an official response in the thread from Chamberlain saying that they were working with ST integration in the coming months. I don’t know about you, but I’m not holding my breath.

The only way I know of to get Chamberlain openers to work with ST is to get the GoControl and wire it to the Chamberlain wall switch. The GoControl will effectively work as a pseudo button press on the wall switch. You have to solder the GoControl opener wires to 2 points inside the wall switch to get this to work.