Yeah, that’s a problem I haven’t dealt with yet - hence the black grease gunk you see on the top of the magnet/bracket part. Mine just barely, ever so slightly, touches on open. I just need to move the magnet down one set of holes, trim the bracket, and maybe move the sensor down a bit.
The Chamberlain garage door opener I recently purchased is quite loud when remotely controlled, very much like some household smoke alarms. The first time I used the MyQ app to close the door I thought something had broken – the light flashed and the opener beeped loudly (this behavior wasn’t mentioned anywhere on the packaging of the MyQ Internet Gateway). The beeping continued through the entire closing process. I ended up returning the Internet Gateway and going back to a relay + open/close sensor.
Someone mentioned in another thread that audible alarm requirement in UL 325-2010 for unattended operation only applies to industrial and restricted access installations, not residential. I haven’t seen the actual UL verbiage myself, though, so I can’t verify that.
My initial resolution was to move the magnet bracket back just a bit, so it rested on the lower part of the door (like yours, a hump in the middle) I then added a cut piece of 1x2 to wedge between the bracket and the door cross support, and used a couple washers under the back end of the bracket to tilt the magnet closer to the sensor.
…I forgot to ask - is the Config button supposed to do something? It doesn’t. If power is lost, is that just going to show up in the status, or ?
the config button is what you push to pair or exclude it
@Toasty, @Lgkahn, the Config button has nothing to do with pairing or excluding. The button on the device is used for that.
Once your MIMOLite has joined, tap the Config button/tile to send parameters to the device so it’s properly set up to report power failure events. You will not see anything in the app happen, only in the IDE where you’ll a log event. Most of the time I do get power alerts, but it’s dependent upon a few factors. Once power fails, the device has just enough power to send a quick message. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Just spent some time setting up my garage again after the move to the V2 Hub. I have a smartsense multi on the door to sense if it is opener not and a Z-wave relay to control it.
To get the Multi off of the contact open and onto the tilt setting go to the web interface
https://graph.api.smartthings.com/
Log in and select devices
change the SmartSense Multi to SmartSense Garage Door Multi
for the relay I had to change it to Z-Wave Virtual Momentary Contact Switch
after this it seemed to work pretty close to the way it did on V1
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Just spent some time setting up my garage again after the move to the V2 Hub. I have a smartsense multi on the door to sense if it is opened not and a Z-wave Linear relay to control it.
To get the Multi off of the contact open and onto the tilt setting go to the web interface
https://graph.api.smartthings.com/
Log in and select devices
change the SmartSense Multi to SmartSense Garage Door Multi
for the relay I had to change it to Z-Wave Virtual Momentary Contact Switch
after this it seemed to work pretty close to the way it did on V1
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It’s been working well for me.
Thanks so much for putting this together @johnconstantelo
This is awesome, I tired a few of the other versions of this device type, found yours and it’s working exactly like it should. Fantastic!
Glad I could help @tasi.
Someone replied to my post about the new way the garage door feature works.
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I’ve got the room setup working correctly but have you figured out how to get SmartThings to recognize the door and then close it as part of a Routine? Thanks for the help!
I cant figure out “select the Feature Device”? I set the room up and get the the garge opener to open the door but then the button on in my garage does not open or close it. its as if I have to turn the Evolve off. I feel I have it set up wrong. I tired following your steps Renie. any more help would be great
John,
Thanks for posting this! I went ahead and got three Mimolites to replace my previous relay+tilt sensor combos. They’re working great with your custom device type. I can open/close them fine from the things view and the proper status is reflected even on v2. 
Unfortunately, I’m still having one problem. It seems the Mimolites do not respond to routines. I can select the garage door within the routine just fine, but when I trigger the routine nothing happens. There is a confirmation from “SmartThings” that the routine has been triggered, but the door does not open.
Does it work for you with routines? If so, are you on the v1, or v2 hub? I’m not sure why that would matter, but I’m trying to figure out what might be different.
Ultimately, I’m trying to just open/close my doors when the corresponding presence sensors arrive/leave. I’m open to other solutions beyond routines if routines are know to be non-working.
Thanks for your time!
No unfortunately, no luck here either. I believe this is a problem with Routines and garage door control.
I’ve modified my device type to try all sorts of things, but ultimately I never see any event being sent to the device to open it. Live Logs shows the right Routing being executed but without any debugging/trace info, and the right parent/child apps; but nothing ever gets sent to the device. I’m capturing and sending any bit of data that could be sent, but nothing is…
have you tried to add a momentary capability (I don’t recall the official name) and have the routine ‘push’ it?
Or you could give it a “switch” capability so it would show up light a light switch?
Great minds think alike!
Instead of a momentary “push”, the device type has Switch capabilities. I set up a Routine to “Turn on these lights or switches” and selected the device. When the “ON” command is sent the door opens. Yay!
The device type also checks to see if the door is already open. If it’s open it won’t send the ON command, but instead log an event stating it’s already open:
6:47:22 PM: debug Not opening door since it is already open
6:47:22 PM: debug on() was called treat this like Open
I tested this using an open/close sensor under “Automatically perform…when”. Works every time.
I updated the device type I posted above, so be sure to grab the latest code from Github.
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Thanks so much, John/Steve! I tried out the new code. It seems it works fine for opening the door, but does not work for a routine which closes the door. Are you seeing the same behavior? I set the routine to turn the “switch” “off” when attempting to close the door. Looking at the code (admittedly I’m not 100% familiar with the SmartThings API) it seems this would be the proper thing to do.
- Mike
Hi @ForceBlast, you are correct, it should be closing when OFF is sent. I don’t have a Routine for that, but I can experiment tonight. BRB…