Hey Everyone,
Is there a way to add this new Garage door device to my SmartTiles dashboard?
Have a great day,
Michael
@Mgreen4117 If you used this app, it means that you already had relay/momentary switch, and contact sensor that setup for your garage door. In Smarttiles, you can add 2 tiles (one for momentary switch and one for contact sensor). Goodluck !!
you can also use the virtual garage device in smarttiles directly as well. If you use the modified virtual garage door device that I posted above where I added switch capability ā¦ as well as in amazon alexa.
Ok thanks! And LGkahn thanks for the app, it works great!
Okay, followed your instructionsā¦but still getting the same result. I do think I may have been using the generic device type the first time, found the new one at the bottom of the list this time. Works if I directly turn on the switch, appropriately registers in the app based on manual intervention, but does not do anything when I hit the virtual garage door opener device.
Here are some screen shots showing device setups and logging (you can see logging is working, but not correlating to any of the virtual button toggles):
Any thoughts? Anything you see wrong?
Post the app configuration
the app is misconfiguredā¦ the first two things sould be the physical door and the physical sensor
the next should be the virtual door device twiceā¦ you hae the second on as the physical sensor.
FYI this verbiage is what confused me tooā¦ I assumed by āVirtual Garage Door Device SENSORā that you meant the contact sensor. Once changed to the actual Virtual Garage Door Device it worked as expected. I do think the word āSensorā is confusing but that may just be me.
Thanks for the great code and continued efforts to support the community. This is a great piece of work.
Does anyone know if this app will work with MyQ, Or do you need to have a dedicated zwave sensor for the garage door
thanks
myq should already have a device type that has the same functionalityā¦ it needs a device that has a on off switch functionality
I tried that, the control is very slow and delayed.
Bingo! Appreciate the help. Working great.
Using the Rule Machine smart app to immediately turn the switch back off once activated (which actually seems to deactivate it 4-8 seconds after activation which is about perfect). Previously had Vera and they had an app that handled turning off the switch as wellā¦might be a nice future enhancement for those that are less savvy.
Great app! And great support! Thank you!
I read through the post but didnāt see anyone mentioning this as an issueā¦ butā¦
When I first set this up I was getting a delay during āopeningā and āclosingā and then after so long it would change to open or closed.
But a day after I implemented it, now it just goes immediately to open or immediately to closed without the pause or re-checkā¦?
Any tips?
The only thing I recall changing recently was to disable push notificationā¦ but donāt think that had anything to do with it.
Also, thanks again for all you do for the community! It is sincerely appreciated.
the delay is if you dont use my modified virtual device that removes the 6 second delayā¦ or it could be depending on what kind of open close sensor you are usingā¦ not sure why it would have gone away unless you change the virtual device type or changed your sensorā¦ or it could have just been the cloud was very busy
No, Iām sorryā¦ I didnāt explain it I donāt thinkā¦
I have mine set at 1 second on the runIn().
But, the ācheck the statusā timeout is what I was referring to.
Mine both say 25 but for some reason when yuo click it to Open it says āOpeningā for a split second and then goes to āOpenā instead of waiting for a reading from the contact sensor.
Also, same with Closing. So if itās open, and I click it, it says āClosingā for only a half second and then goes to āClosedā even though the garage is quite obviously still trying to close and the contact sensor has not closed yetā¦?
the check status timeout has nothing to do with how longā¦ it can goto open or close intermediately depending on what kind of sensor you haveā¦ ā¦ the check status is how long to wait before checking if it failed to open or closeā¦ (ie the door got stuck and reversed or something crossed the beam etc. 1 second is not correct. no door closes or opens in 1 secā¦ this would attempt to resync after this timeout if the actual door sensor fails to show the correct stateā¦
the runin timeout should be at least how long it actually takes to open or close the doorā¦ plus some time if it actually reverses.
Okayā¦ I guess Iām saying I followed along and changed the 6 to a 1 in the code.
In my settings of the SmartApp I configured it at 25 seconds as it was the default.
Iām using a door contact sensor. Not a tilt sensor.
Iād imagine if the door is closing it should say closing until the contact sensor returns āclosedā and if it never returns āclosedā after the timeout then I would say it should report the door as open still?
Thatās just my thought process, Iām not claiming your code does thatā¦ maybe Iām missing something.
yes with a door sensor it should show open immediately but should say closing for awhile and then eventually say closedā¦im not sure it works that wayā¦ i believe it will say closed and if after 25 secs. the real sensor still says open it should resync and say openā¦
try itā¦ hit the close see what happens and cross the beam so it goes back up.
Alright, great! Just making sure I wasnāt crazy. Haha.
Wondering if there is a way to make it say Closing and hold at closing until the contact reports closed? Not like it really matters, as long as it resyncs back to open that is all that matters to me. 
the problem is the virtual garage device type would have to do thatā¦ not the smart appā¦ and one device type cannot access another device type ie say to check the status of the contactā¦ otherwise you would not need this smartapp at all. When i get a chance i will look at it more to see if i can figure something out. i could continually poll but i am superficially avoiding thatā¦ once the app gets the notification that the door state changes it updates immediately.