Garage Door Virtual Switch Smartthings

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Garage door virtual switch smartthings.

This solution allows you to build your own custom bespoke garage door opener using a relay and a door open close sensor or a tilt sensor and optionally integrate other sensors controls in to your virtual garage door controller. In looking at the works with smartthings page it seems that there isn t an opener that inherently connects to smartthings as there are only 2 add on devices that connect to it gocontrol and iris. Configure and automatically install up to 5 virtual. Create a virtual device see elsewhere.

It looks like my current garage door opener is failing and as i replace it i would like to get something that works with smartthings. 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. Virtual garage door manager and controller on overwhelming requests from users. I created a virtual switch in smartthings then in ifttt i created 4 applets.

The first two update the switch status if the door is opened manually outside of smartthings if open garage door then switch on garage door virtual switch if close garage door then switch off garage door virtual switch. The simulated device will then control the actual garage door. Combines an actuator switch device and multisensor contact acceleration into a single logical garage door device capability doorcontrol properly reflects the state of the door if opened closed externally door button garage remote etc opens closes immediately when you tell it to what it doesn t do.