I need to search the Community, but I thought someone did something with the MimoLite and a potentiometer to determine actual garage door position. At work right now, so I’ll follow up a little later.
EDIT:
I have a regular Sears door opener with a button that either opens or closes the door.
Initially I got the solution that @johnconstantelo developed working with a magnetic switch that triggered when the door closed. See Mimolite for garage door and magnetic door contact
This worked find except sometimes the close/open event would get missed. I don’t know if this is linked to current reports of flakey ST service or not but it meant that sometimes the door didn’t report closed or open which made the whole project questionable.
MIMOlite supports a “multi-sensor” feature that reports a variable level, not just a contact sensor, and the bit that is really useful is that it can be programmed to send periodic updates with the value of the sensor, as fast as very 10 seconds. This means that eve…
Does this help you out?
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