[OBSOLETE] Enhanced Z-Wave Garage Door Controller GD00Z-4/GD00Z-5/Linear/GoControl/Iris/Nortek Device Handler with Switch and Automated Garage Door Open/Close when People Arrive/Leave/Timer [OBSOLETE]

[Ron]

@garyd9 has a version you can get for free which works perfect with the GD00Z-4

[OBSOLETE] Enhanced Z-wave garage door opener code (for Linear GD00Z and variants)

I’ve modified the ST default “Z-Wave Garage Door Opener” to better work with the “doors & locks” module. As far as I know, this would only be useful for the linear GD00Z device (and variants including the Iris opener.) This will allow you to select your garage door device as both the “open/close sensor” and the “garage door opener relay.” At that point, from within the “doors & locks” module, you can use “open and close it remotely” (and perhaps the other sub-modules that open/close the door.) All this does is to add the “relay switch” and “momentary” capabilities to the type, stubs on()/off(), and defines push() to either open or close the door (depending on it’s current state.) It’s not a perfect implementation, as the “doors & locks” module might show the door as being “stopped” wh…

It doesn’t handle the reset after the door loses power however I don’t see how any version can. I contacted the makers of the GD00Z devices and they told me that was a requirement of getting UL rating. The tilt sensor on the door ONLY sends a signal when it’s position is shifted (saved battery life) so the base unit can’t know what position the door is in after a power outage. Linear should have put a battery backup on the device to prevent this but they didn’t. Of course you can plug the device (not the garage door opener) into a UPS and it will never lose it’s position data.

Without a UPS the only way to reset the door is to move it (open/close) so the tilt sensor sends a signal.

It would be cool if RBoy’s version fixed this issue but I don’t think it is possible since the GD00Z will only send “unknown” status zwave messages after an outage until the tilt sensor sends a new update. I have used Garyd’s version to add some debug messages and I am quite sure that the unknown status as the only update the unit sends after a power outage until the tilt sensor is shifted.