Presence Sensor & Garage Door Open/Close

[Jimxenus]

@mejifair

I have read through some of the posts regarding the automated opening/closing of my garage door based upon the ST presence sensor. Has anyone gotten this to work reliably?

This is really a YMMV application. I have gotten it to work pretty reliably for the last year and a half but I only have the garage door open and not close because I would have to drive about a quarter mile away before the garage door would sense me being away and close.

I have had a few times where the sensor would suddenly report leaving and arriving causing the door to open when the presence sensor didn’t move at all.

Finally, due to ST backend instabilities lately, I had this situation happen which I posted in another thread. So you might want to think twice trying to implement this.

Random events

Having some lights going on or off is merely an annoyance but today, my garage door suddenly started closing on me while I was already inside the car backing out. Apparently, I never noticed the garage door coming down because it was just starting to close and I was backed up far enough for it to be out of my field of vision. Timing was just perfect as the back of my car roof contacted with the bottom part of the garage door enough to push a couple of the bottom garage door wheels out of the track (this is a roll-up door). I was able to stop in time to cause any further damage. Fortunately, the damage was minimal (I hope) as I was able to push the tracks back into alignment although my garage door is now slightly bowed. I am using the Linear GD00Z-4 garage door opener but there was no usu…