Smartthings Simulated Garage Door

Virtual garage door manager and controller on overwhelming requests from users.

Smartthings simulated garage door. Receive alerts from smartthings if your gocontrol garage door opener detects that your garage door has been left open for too long or opened unexpectedly. The simulated device will then control the actual garage door. After installing the relay switch in your garage and placing a smartsense multi on your garage door which senses if the door is open or close you ll be able to trigger your garage door to automatically open close when you arrive leave. 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 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. 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. Create a virtual device see elsewhere. As far as i know this would only be useful for the linear gd00z device and variants including the iris opener this will allow you to select your garage door device as both the open close sensor and the garage door opener relay at that point from within the.

So far no luck incorporating it with samsung smartthings. It seems that samsung doesn t have many options for garage door openers. Clare only works with integrators dealers. 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.

To connect the iris z wave garage. Create a virtual device see elsewhere for instructions for device type use the simulated garage door. However my overhead garage door opener did work with clare. 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.

You can also automate your garage door to open and close based on a schedule your mobile presence or other smartthings connected devices whatever suits your needs. A smartthings hub a smartsense multi sensor a compatible garage door opener recommended. I have switched to a samsung hub for a clarecontrols hub so i can be in total control of my hub. The iris z wave garage door controller gd 00z 1 along with smartthings allows you to remotely open close and monitor your garage door.

I ve modified the st default z wave garage door opener to better work with the doors locks module. Evolve relay switch how it works. Control your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with the smartthings app for iphone or android. There are other implementations with a similar purpose but they either rely on smartthings simulated garage door device which isn t optimal for this purpose or they support a bunch of complicated automations which can already be accomplished with other more generic smartapps once you have a coherent virtual garage door device available.

Configure and automatically install up to 5 virtual.