Raspberry Pi with PHP (or Arduino/ESP8266/NodeMCU) to GPIO to Relay to Gate/Garage Trigger

[JZst]

You need a “rule” engine inside of SmartThings.

The simplest one is the one offered by Samsung/ST — called Smart Lighting… go to your SmartApps and just install it.

The old favorite was Rule Machine but the developer of it killed the project and now we have CoRE — comminity’s own rule engine. It’s SUPER-NICE for advanced rules — but for your miniscule requirement of sensor then switch — Smart Lighting should do the trick and I’d highly recommend it given that Samsung fully supports it.

[OBSOLETE] [BETA MILESTONE 1] CoRE (Community's own Rules Engine)

UPDATE 8/12/2016: CoRE has moved on to Beta Milestone 2. Please kindly follow us here. In an attempt to fill the huge void left by the withdrawal of Rule Machine, a few brave community members started their journey to creating a new rule engine to rule them all. We’ve decided to call it CoRE, an abbreviation that stands for “Community’s own Rule Engine”, courtesy of @SBDOBRESCU (his idea, really). WARNING: This SmartApp is in an alpha BETA development stage and may be quirky. It may also change rapidly and drastically, involving a full reset of the app in order to upgrade. It is not recommend to install this SmartApp in a “production” environment, but we encourage people to try it out. IMPORTANT: This topic is here for general information and peer assistance. If you want to point out e…