Are you seeing any logging at all for other things? One thing I’ve noticed is live logging doesn’t work for me if I’m at work because of the firewall. I can get to the page but no logs actually show up. The page apparently uses some other port that’s blocked.
Any here have this currently working with more than 2 doors in 1 smart app instance?
Weeeelll, now I feel silly. I’ve solved the mystery, @schapper05:
Yep, there are my two typos. They were causing door 3 and 4 to use sensor2 instead of their own respective sensors. New update to the SmartApp is now out that fixes this. I only have 2 doors, so I didn’t catch this in any of my testing. Thanks for helping isolate it.
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Not a problem, I’m just glad i’m not crazy! The first few time I tried to get this app to work a while back the only thing I tried was door 3 no wonder!
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I deleted the second instance of the smartapp and tested it. I can verify that it works for 3 doors 
Thank you!
Did it at home and no live logging. Looking at the default device handler there is not many log.debug statements.
Does the sensor have to be a tilt sensor? Would a normal door open/closed (contact) sensor work instead? Trying to plan ahead in case Chamberlain releases some kind of official integration and I no longer need the tilt sensor. I could repurpose a door open/close sensor easily, but can’t think of anything else to do with a spare tilt sensor.
I’m thinking something like this…
It should work, yes. In fact, the sensor type the SmartApp looks for is “Contact” so even the tilt sensors are ultimately just reporting “open” or “closed.” They just use a different hardware method to report that. If you get one and it acts weird, let me know, and I’ll see if I need to tweak something in the app for it.
Thanks, I’ll update once I get it set up. Appreciate your work on this!
If you have a home depot close, check to see if they have any of the gocontrol packs that are on clearance (or find them on ebay for about 35 for 2 d/w sensors and a motion, or 50 for 3 d/w, 1 motion, & 1 siren) and make a few ball/tilt sensors out of the door sensors.
I checked online and none of the HD stores near me stock the gocontrol stuff. I did find an Iris contact sensor at Lowe’s (this one - does contact and temperature both for $23). Installed and it’s working just fine. I have it near the top of the door so as soon as it starts to open it pulls up and away from the sensor.
Only thing I’m a little concerned about is range. This is a zigbee sensor and the rest of my devices are zwave, so there’s nothing to repeat the signal between my ST hub and the garage door. They are probably 40 feet apart and there are two walls between. Doesn’t seem to be an issue so far, does signal strength fade as the battery level decreases?
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HD’s won’t show them in stock because they are putting them on clearance. Also as an FYI the iris contact sensors are still 13.98 @ lowes zip 10011 with shipping available.
If it’s reporting right now I wouldn’t worry about it. If you start to have intermittent issues you can always add an iris pocket socket to improve range and split the difference.
Amazon has these (still)
httpshttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XUXYT6K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and these
Not sure if that’s what you want -
Found two cases of GE link bulbs at HD today. They wouldn’t sell them to me because they were marked one cent each and therefore would be destroyed. Arrrgh!
Can I use a Samsung multisensor for this?
LJ
I believe one of the functions is a contact sensor, so yes it should work just fine.
My home is all Z-Wave. I use this app with this Z-Wave switch: https://www.amazon.com/Aeon-Labs-Aeotec-Z-Wave-Window/dp/B00DJALAIE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1466778500&sr=8-3&keywords=aeotec+contact+sensor
Had a pretty bad lightning storm here last night. Got an SHM alert around 2 am saying one of my garage doors had opened. The Chamberlain app showed the door closed, but my tilt sensor was showing open. Opening and closing the garage fixed the sensor. I’m thinking one of the thunderclaps was so close it actually vibrated the tilt sensor enough to trigger the open status. Never seen that happen before.
I have one in my mail box and when the winds get heavy (30+) I’ve gotten an intermittent open too…
I apologize in advcanced if it was covered somewhere earlier in this thread but maybe someone can help me understand why the old app is malfunctioning yet you can still hit the refresh tile and have the devices update itself with the correct status? The issue i am having is that the status does not update automatically but a manual refresh seems to work and give corrects status so why cant we simulate whatever is happening when we manually ask to refresh/pool and just have that done automagically in a script?