diehllane
December 14, 2015, 7:34pm
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If those are wired contacts they won’t work directly with ST.
There is a way to get them to work using specific Z-wave contact sensors. You just need to get the Ecolink or Schlage sensors and they have the ability to add in wired contacts. I believe I’ve seen done where you could do multiples in series if you had side-by-side windows you wanted to monitor (essentially monitoring 2 windows with 1 sensor)
Yeah any wireless technology and large amounts of metal is not a good combination and magnets will only make it more interesting. The 1/4" wood or plastic buffer would of been my plan of attack as well. I can think of a few possibilities, but ALL are long shots. Your Ecolink door sensor should have contacts for wiring. If this is the case here are some options [image]
Order an external magnetic sensor and wire it up to the contacts, give yourself at least 1ft from the magnets and the sensor.
Use some left over wire and wire up the gate so that when the gate is closed the circuit is complete. i.e. the 2 wires touch either directly or through the metal latch.
Order an external pressure sensor and wire it up to the contacts. Place the pressure sensor in a place so that when the gate is clos…
and also this thread uses them (albeit for a different purpose, but same concept)
I got it all set-up last night and works great. Just connect the leads from the mat to the screw terminals inside the door sensor and you have a connected pressure sensitive mat!
For my use case, I put the mat under my existing front door mat. This is one of those rare smart home things that my wife actually asked for! I am going to change the cover out for the brown (sensor comes with both white and brown) to make it blend in a little more.
It pairs as a door sensor and open is the default state, when some stands on it closes. I may customize the device type to make it device specific but the standard device type works just fine (notifications, triggers, etc…)
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