Openhab Garage Door Opener

A switch to open close the door.

Openhab garage door opener.

Looking for ideas what and how to use to add. When i am leaving the highway or after i have already driven out of reach of common rf solutions it is connected via mqtt. I am using a raspberry pi3b gpio pins to control a relay board which simulates someone pressing the garage door opener on the wall. I tapped into the buttons on the wall and ran a pair of wires to the relayboard and connected them to common and normally open.

Chamberlain 1 25 hp myq secure view and ultra bright smart belt drive garage door opener with myq and wi fi compatibility and battery back up and led light and camera s item 1630354 model b6765. Or you can pre order a pre built one. My config settings. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api.

I regularly do that remotely e g. This tutorial assumes you have the gpio binding installed and have already gotten that working for other items. If you have multiple garage door openers and or lights the device index is based on the order the garage door opener light s were added to the myq app. Hooray for open source.

Currently have a chamberlain garage door opener and was using the myq add on to control it through openhab but they keep changing the api which renders the add on useless. Hi i am just making my first steps with openhab moving over from a self written interface. My first appliance is a garage door that is not only monitored contact but can also be controlled. The controlling is done in one topic.

Rule a garage opener was triggered when item agarageopener1 received command or item agarageopener2 received command then var topic triggeringitem name substring 1 cmd sendcommand topic on loginfo logname garage opener triggeringitem name substring triggeringitem name length 1 was triggered if vnetwork cerberos state off this is a network binding item that goes off when the rpi goes offline aalert sendcommand attempting to trigger a garage opener but the. There is already a binding available for openhab 1 works on 2 so you can know your home made device will work with openhab. For example when i turn on my home alarm system the garage door is automatically closed. I added a string item for the actual command to open or close the door.