@zuperman4ever Yeah tried all that no luck… Evolve emailed me back this morning with something else to try… we will see if it works tonight. Thanks
Spoke to evolve and they said click button twice really fast. 20 millisecond between clicks. I still got nothing. I finally was able to get it by reboot ST hub and doing a double click top air it. Basically the only thing I did not try.
@natescook1 having the same issue you had. Didn’t quite follow what you did to get it working it from your last post. Can you help enlighten me?
@triggertact so I was able to get it to sync but it took some doing. Here is what i found.
- Make sure the relay is connected to door and triggers the door when the button on the unit it pressed. Both up and down should work. That means it’s wired in correctly
- I tried the single button sync suggested in the manual and that did not work
- Evolve suggested a double click of the button while hub I searching. Key is the two clicks need to be 20 millisecond or less apart which is not easy to do. I used a flat screw driver to do it but still no luck.
- Final thing I tried was restarting the ST hub and syncing as soon as it came up with the above mentioned double click and I was able to successfully sync.
It has been running great now for a week. Opening when we come home, closing when we leave and notifying us if we leave it open.
Thanks to this post, last night I was able to successfully install my Evolve relay and have everything working. The one thing I’d like to adjust is the amount of time my garage door remains open after my car leaves. Currently, I’m about 2 miles down the road–3 - 5 minutes depending on traffic–before Smartthings notices my car is gone and then closes the door. Is there a way to adjust this? I was looking for the geofencing within the Smartthings app, but haven’t been able to find it since the most recent updates (iOS or Android).
I am not sure on android but on iphone geofencing is under the three lines icon in top left that says dashboard and then under the gear icon symbol. I have found the presence fobs work better for open door and closing but there can still be a delay sometime. I put one in each car and use phone for home and away triggering and fobs for shorter range garage door function
Okay so after using the Evolve relay, a ST multi sensor, and ST presence fobs to trigger arrival home for about a month now I have a few observations…
First the GOOD:
- I love the ability to know and be notified if the garage door is left open. Have mine set to five minutes and it is pretty spot on. Lord knows my wife and I have left it open before and luckily no one has helped themselves to camping equipment in the garage or let themselves into the house.
- I have used and like the performance of the remote close feature on the ST app. The response time to trigger closure from the app is amazing.
Now for the BAD:
- I have experienced on more than one occasion the presence fob lose connection and then reconnect triggering the door to open even though the car with the fob in it has not gone anywhere. I have considered geofencing with my phone but i think the same may happen if the iPhone runs out of battery. I also don’t like the size of the smallest geofence. With my town i could pass by and it might trigger it (this is why we used the fobs).
- The trigger time for the presence fob seems to vary a lot. I am not sure what the polling interval is but there are times i pull up and it is opening perfectly time to me entering the drive way and there are time it takes almost a minute to open.
I am considering removing the open when i arrive feature and just continuing with the notify me when i am left open feature. I may also think about a close if left open for to long option but that one scares me a little… nothing closing automatically on a car or my wife. She would not be amused!
I’ve said is elsewhere: the presence fob is not good for triggering the events. Though it is more than adequate as a condition (if a door is unlocked and nobody’s present for over 30 min - lock the door). If you must trigger an event, clamp it down with other conditions (e.g.: open the door on presence between 16:00 and 19:00 only).
Forgive me if this question has already been asked. I’ve noticed that since installing the LFM-20 the garage door opener that my mother-in-law keeps in her car and the one I have in my car do not work consistently. I will hit the button to open and nothing happens. I have to open the SmartThings app to open the door.
Have either of you experienced this?
It happened to me for a little bit. I had to turn the garage relays off on the app, for the wall opener to work. Works fine for me. Button or clicker. Give that a whirl?
Given that I could wire this directly to the switch in my garage door opener, could I theoretically just use a z-wave switch instead of having to buy the evolve lfm-20 switch? I understand that I’d need to change it to a momentary switch, but this is just a thought…
I have a craftsman .5HP opener and I am looking at options to control it. My push button has both the garage door button as well as a button for the light and a motion sensor. I wonder if I could open it up and take advantage of these sensors. When it detects motion, it turns the light on (sometimes when there’s no motion, at 3AM!) but it’d be cool to take advantage of this existing sensor and even better if I could save a few $$ with using just a switch instead of full Evolve LFM-20.
Huh? Developer’s web site? What? Where?
My LFM appears wired right, The door still works with the door button. Trying to connect to LFM using ST. Tried + then Switches then Evolve LFM-20. Pushed LFM’s button and tried Connect Now but it doesn’t find anything. I’m not understanding folk her discussing ZWave … whatever. Where is that selectable?
OK, I saw the Developers LInk on ST and followed Adding a Device and used Zwave Momentary Switch but hacked the rest. It then showed up on my ipad as a device needing configuration which I seemed to do. Finally I tried using it to close the door and it says Closing but nothing at the device happens. I think the ZigBee device ID might be important?
Actually Device Network ID is what I meant to say.
I’ve spent the better part of the day on this. The LFM is wired correctly, butoon still works up and down. Trued to add the relay tothe ST app to no avail. Single click, Double click, long press doesn’t help the swarch. Tried to manually add the device in the web API but can’t complete all required fields (Network ID, etc). Stuck not being able to control the garage door.
Hi guys,
Does anyone know if there is a equivalent relay for the EU (868.42 MHz), which works with ST?
I need it for the garage door and also a electric gate.
Thank you
Can someone at least verify that without a Network ID my LFM can’t work? Manually adding it to the web UI device list just doesn’t seem enough of a “connection”.
So none of you that have a working LFM-20 can suggest how my ST app can find, connect and control the device? Have I wasted the price of the unit and the day spent wiring it up?
@jonv You’re right that you can’t just add the device without a network ID. What people were referring to was how to change the device type after it is added, which should no longer be necessary now that this is a supported device and use case.
It’s possible your device was already included into another Z-Wave network before you got it. Try following the “Performing a General Device Exclusion” instructions here: https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/200878314-How-do-I-exclude-a-Z-Wave-device-using-SmartThings-
and then adding it with the (+) interface again.
If that doesn’t work, email support@smartthings.com
@jonv I posted earlier about how pairing this little bugger is really tough.
here is the prior post
o I was able to get it to sync but it took some doing. Here is what i found.
- Make sure the relay is connected to door and triggers the door when the button on the unit it pressed. Both up and down should work. That means it’s wired in correctly
- I tried the single button sync suggested in the manual and that did not work
- Evolve suggested a double click of the button while hub I searching. Key is the two clicks need to be 20 millisecond or less apart which is not easy to do. I used a flat screw driver to do it but still no luck.
- Final thing I tried was restarting the ST hub and syncing as soon as it came up with the above mentioned double click and I was able to successfully sync.
It has been running great now for a week. Opening when we come home, closing when we leave and notifying us if we leave it open
I have actually now been synced for months with no issues… The 20 milliseconds thing is hard to do with that button. i had to use a little screwdriver to be able to click fast enough.