Syncs a Simulated garage door device with 2 actual devices, either a tilt or contact sensor and a switch or relay. The simulated device will then control the actual garage door. In addition, the virtual device will sync when the garage door is opened manually, \n It also attempts to double check the door was actually closed in case the beam was crossed.
create a virtual device (see elsewhere for instructions) for device type use the simulated garage door.
You can also create a modified version for yourself I recommend decreasing the runin time to 1 sec, otherwise it takes 6 secs before the door starts closing or opening when you toggle the simulated device icon. (That is what I did)
install this smart app.
select your relay /switch, and actual garage door sensor in the app, Also select the virtual one twice in the app. Once for the sensor (to get the current state), and once for the door control to actually be able to toggle it.
See picts below.
It also optionally can send text or notifications
It also double checks (in 15 seconds) after opening or closing and will resync for some reason if the door didnāt really close ie beam crossed, or didnāt really open for some reason,
This is great. Thanks for filling the gap for Smartthings. Installed and working for my 2 garage doors. Now I can use the night routine to actually close the garage doors. Before I had to do it with a separate app. Again Thank you.
So just got it all setup and took the risk and opened and closed my garage door here from the office :). Probably not a totally good idea but hey the door opened and closed just fine. Watched the logs in the ide and everything looked good. I then set this up for my goodnight routine to automatically shut the door for me if its open and to also automatically shut it with the goodbye routine as well. We will see how well this works. I donāt want to use the Iām Back to open the door since sometimes it thinks that I left in the middle of the night then I came back when in reality my phone was on my nightstand all night lol.
I just gave this a go and the garage opens fine but when I close it the tile will say closing then switch to closed and then the door starts to physically close. When it closes a message appears that the door didnāt shut and it is syncing and the door re-opens. Seems I cannot close it with this app. If I manually close it the app updates and shows correctly that it is closed.
The only thing that would cause this us a problem with your door sensor . Double check what sensor you set in the app. Make sure it is working and reading open and closed when you manually work the the door and there is no delay.
Also if you didnāt use a custom simulated door device type as I recommended. There is a 6 sec delay be for closing and it expects the door to be closed within 15 secs before checking. If sensor us working OK change time outs in the app from 15 to 25 secs
If that fixes it I will make the delay a user seteable parameter.
I did notice that the door was not closed enough to have the tilt sensor in the closed position when i was getting the sync message so i changed the time in the app to 20 secs and now it is working fine. I guess my door is a little slow.
One other question, When i hit the close icon the status tile goes form closing to closed rather quickly (less than a second) then the door starts to close. Is that normal or should that update to the actual sensor status?
ok new version up there with the timeout user seteable as an input optionā¦ default is 25 instead of 15 so it should work even if you donāt create a custom simulated door device type reducing the 6 sec to 1 or 2.
As for the state changing to closed quickly. that is kinda by design and why you change the timout in the simulated app.
unfortunately the way the smartapp works the actual door will not start moving until that timeout expiresā¦ if you put 6 secs back in it will go to closing wait 6 secs then actually start closing which is not really desirable experiment yourself.
Anyway version 2 posted with user seteable timeoutā¦ and also made the other inputs mandatory as it wont work without them.
unfortunately there is no way to hide that I know off the relay and sensor in thingsā¦ do you know a wayā¦ so they still appear. although you can create another room and move the sensor and relay out of the actual room into the dummy room so they donāt appear there.
Oh Yeah, I wasnāt complainingā¦ The way I had it setup prior was it had to be accessed individually in the things list or the room. What I did now was remove the relay and sensor from the Garage Room and added in the virtual device. It is a lot cleaner now.
I have created the virtual device and installed the the SmartApp and everything appears to be working great. Thank you. Now the only thing I need to do is to customize the simulated door device type to decrease the run in time to 1 sec. The problem is I have no idea how to do that. Could you provide the steps you took to make that change?
Complete 100% green noob here with new ST hub and a few devices.
No smartapps installed at this point. Still trying to wrap my head around all this.
I am particularly interested in this app though since Iām not very pleased with the basic ST functionality of the garage door setup. I have a door sensor installed on the garage door and installed a relay (LFM-20) on the garage door motor assembly. Using the ST app, it works, but I donāt like it. I have to hit the open/close button twice and itās justā¦weird otherwise.
The way youāve written this app pretty much makes it work the way I want it to work too.
So problem.
I got the virtual device created.
Next, I got to step #4 where Iām supposed to āmake your changes to the codeā. Not sure what that means though. I was assuming that I was to simply delete the existing code for the simulated garage door opener template and replace it with the code for this custom app. However, when I do this and then click ācreateā, it generates an NPE:
āJava.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property ālocationDTOā on null objectā
