Smartthings Garage Door Sensor Not Working

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.

Smartthings garage door sensor not working. Its has been working for long time now but was wondering if there is a better setup i should have. Check the wires ensure they are connected nicely and then open close manually and then check open close from the app. Smartthings classic app only if you re using the multipurpose sensor on your garage door it may not be mounted properly. Is this the best route to go.

Just purchased smartthings hub v2 and 4 multi sensors. Take take in between the manual open close and then trying to do it with the app. 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. All the sensors are within 30 40 feet of the hub i have tried repairing the sensors turned off hub for 15 minutes but noting seems to correct this issue.

The problem is sometimes the sensors don t seem to change status from open close. 1 out of 3 found this helpful. Mount the garage door sensor vertically so that when the garage door is vertical it will read closed when horizontal it will read open to mount the multipurpose sensor in the correct orientation. It is possible that through vibration the wire connection to the garage door opener may have worked loose over a year.

Set aside the smaller magnet portion of the sensor not needed for sensing garage door status orient the main sensor vertically with. Was this article helpful. I have changed the st multi sensor to a smartsense garage door multi sensor and created a virtual momentary switch that trigers the linear device.