No Motor garage door opener (HomeLink button integration?)

[jtschlafer]

I made a thread about how I solved this problem, which was inspired / guided by many of the posts in this thread.

Successful HomeLink Integration

All, I found a number of posts on here with folks looking to connect HomeLink or garage door opener remotes with SmartThings, but no real good solution other than using a garage door open/close sensor on the door itself. I don’t have a garage you can park a car in, so obviously, I have no garage door on which I could use a sensor. I wanted to be able to directly trigger a routine from the HomeLink button in my car. I used some info from here and bits from other places around the internet and put together a solution that is working well for me. It was really very simple. Details below. In short, I used a universal garage door opener receiver and wired it to the contact terminals on a standard Z-Wave open/close sensor. I then used a universal garage door opener remote to program my H…