I recently installed the ridiculously automated garage door app for the Linear Garage Door Opener (gd00z-1). The only problem i’m having is that the it is triggering the garage door to close after my wife arrives and she has to park with the rear of the car sticking out of the garage to open the trunk hatch without it getting scratched up to get items out. After she gets them out she pulls the van into the appropriate position. Since I am not a coder/developer by any means… how can I set a delay to keep it from closing for a certain period of time? or is there a way to wait for a motion sensor to be triggered before closing it? Any advice is greatly appreciated!
There are well documented problems with garage door automation with ST. It’s just not reliable enough for the intended uses. Old fashioned garage door openers work reliably, and ST doesn’t.
I believe I figured out last night that it is triggered by her or my kids opening the interior door to the house from the garage. I think if I could just set it to have a delay after that door is opened it might solve my issue.
Since this device type was created by SmartThings, I would write to support@smartthings.com and ask them about the problem.
I myself can’t read SmartThings code (I depend on text to voice software, and navigating the IDE is very difficult), so I just don’t know exactly what’s exposed for this particular issue.
@tslagle13 may know, he likes this type of challenge.
Tell me more about your setup and I will see what I can come up with.
What i’m thinking is we could add something like when the interior garage door opens and then closes and motions is sensed in XYZ room… then close the door. So if you were unloading groceries and the door remained open you would be good.
A lot of people, especially ones with kids, like to watch the garage door as it closes. Just to make sure the kids haven’t run back out. So you definitely want to allow for an option with the adult still being nearby or the interior door still being open when the garage door does close.
I really like this for the back door of the van or for the trunk of a sedan. Trunk open, delay automation makes perfect sense to me, and won’t block the passage ways.
Of course if you arrive in someone else’s car or a loaner it won’t work, so you probably need a manual override also, maybe a virtual switch?
I’m trying to do it without spending any extra money if possible even though I do like that idea. The perfect scenario to me would involve a range sensor using an arduino or something (noob at the maker stuff as well). That way no matter what… it wouldn’t close unless the van was a certain distance from the wall in front of it. Any premade devices like that exist?
Hopefully your door has an obstruction beam installed to prevent it from actually closing on something/one - if not I sure would not remotely close it.
A pressure mat variant is a good idea. There are many made for vehicle alert systems. The United Pressure model in that thread isn’t suitable for cars, but there are other models.
You’ve probably driven over one in some commercial driveways.
However, that’s an additional device, and the ones for cars are pretty expensive. More expensive than a device that doesn’t have to bear being run over.
Not 100% but I just got a Sonos play 5 for myself for my bday and it would take some convincing of the wife to buy yet another HA device. If anything it will take some time.
