Raspberry Pi Garage Door Status/Control

[Jeff_Lamb]

Here’s what I ended up doing.

First I used the below “URI Switch” device type to create a virtual switch in smart things that made the garage door open and close… I just hooked this up to my existing internal URL’s to open/close the garage door.

[OBSOLETE] URI Switch -- Device Handler for controlling items via HTTP calls

I’ve switched from X10 to ZWave but still have a handful of X10 devices that needed control. I installed Home Genie on a Raspberry Pi which gives me control of my devices via an HTTP call and I wanted a way to control this with SmartThings. With the help of @tguerena we’ve come up with URI Switch. URI Switch is a Device Handler that when attached to a Virtual Switch, kicks off a URL (External or Internal) when an On/Off command is sent Please refer to the following for instructions and usage information http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=URI_Switch While this was created for sending ON / OFF commands for my X10 devices, the ON / OFF commands could be a call to anything that takes a URI to control. Please let us know how this works for you and let us know what we can add…

Next I used this “Virtual Garage Door” smart app to hook up to a simulated garage door opener device… this hooked up to my existing sensor device in smartthings and the newly created URL switch to create a working “Garage Door” device… All seems to be working well. I did have to change one of the .on() commands in the smart app to .off() to get it to work right.

New smart app to link the virtual/simulated garage door device with two actual devices

Syncs a Simulated garage door device with 2 actual devices, either a tilt or contact sensor and a switch or relay. The simulated device will then control the actual garage door. In addition, the virtual device will sync when the garage door is opened manually, \n It also attempts to double check the door was actually closed in case the beam was crossed. create a virtual device (see elsewhere for instructions) for device type use the simulated garage door. You can also create a modified version for yourself I recommend decreasing the runin time to 1 sec, otherwise it takes 6 secs before the door starts closing or opening when you toggle the simulated device icon. (That is what I did) install this smart app. select your relay /switch, and actual garage door sensor in the app, Also s…