Ok so I did everything. But now the door sensor say opening when i click on it and nothing happens? if hit the garage opener it will open the door and not interfere with the physical button on the garage( and it says its ON for sec then the app says the relay is off while the garge is still closing ). But know i dont know if the gargage is open or not? I do have the opener wire directly into the opener ( like the video on the smart things how to videos )and do not have old remote it is hooked up to cause a new one is so over priced. Could not using a old remote have something to do with it?
I’m going to throw this out there sense your new. I love the idea of rule based execution. Here is a web interface building rules/actions in smart things: http://simplerulebuilder.com/ search “Simple Rule Builder” on the forum and you will find a lot about it. Its been fantastic for me.
For the life of me, I cant figure out why SmartThings wont build a web interface and a rule builder.
I continue to be a vera lite user. I bought ST so I could easily connect my hue hub and zwave switches to Amazon Echo (which I and my family love). I have 3 zwave light bulbs (linearlinc bulbz) that I wasn’t able to connect using the standard ST hub processes and so I have left those three lights, my garage door, two kwickset locks, my motion detection and misc smaller items on vera. If I can get it to work adequately on Vera and have no need for it to connect to Alexa, I will probably put it on vera. For my alerts such as door opening and closing I use Vera Alerts which really love and provides me exactly what i need/want. At this time I don’t have any plans to leave vera as I am comfortable with the menus and capabilities there for now and the ease to add most new zwave devices…but frustrated with interfaces to wemo (I bought one wemo plug to test out Echo) and hue hub. I love having both ST and vera and will continue to explore both of their capabilities as times go on.
I sold my Vera, that was about a year ago. I really enjoy my ST. Lots of flexibility, but it needs some more work in the reliability area. Overall it’s a good product.