Impressions of Garage Door Control with the Telguard GDC1

[JDRoberts]

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My impression is that GDC1 is an EXCELLENT garage door controller. The audible and visual indication 5seconds? before energizing, and “re-closing/2 tries” really sells it to me.

Combining this with motorcycle presense sensor action will be the bees knees.

Since options are always good, we should also mention the Linear GD00Z, which is also UL listed to the UL325 standard for garage door controllers, has the same features you mention. @garyd9 has a device type for it that a number of community members are using. So just two competing choices with similar features.

[OBSOLETE] Enhanced Z-wave garage door opener code (for Linear GD00Z and variants)

I’ve modified the ST default “Z-Wave Garage Door Opener” to better work with the “doors & locks” module. As far as I know, this would only be useful for the linear GD00Z device (and variants including the Iris opener.) This will allow you to select your garage door device as both the “open/close sensor” and the “garage door opener relay.” At that point, from within the “doors & locks” module, you can use “open and close it remotely” (and perhaps the other sub-modules that open/close the door.) All this does is to add the “relay switch” and “momentary” capabilities to the type, stubs on()/off(), and defines push() to either open or close the door (depending on it’s current state.) It’s not a perfect implementation, as the “doors & locks” module might show the door as being “stopped” wh…

There are some differences, of course. But any garage door controller which meets the UL325 standard should have the warning before closure and the 2 retries then lockout.