Ridiculously Automated Garage Door Smartapp

2013 03 10 monitors arrival and departure of car s and 1 opens door when car arrives 2 closes door after car has departed for n minutes 3 opens door when car door motion is detected 4 closes door when door was opened due to arrival and interior door.

Ridiculously automated garage door smartapp.

It has been submitted for public availability on the smartthings platform. For example with me it s my side door as my garage is not attached to the house. You ll need a z wave outlet a smartthings multi sensor a presence sensor and the ridiculously automated garage door smartapp. If the app sees the side door open and close sometime after the garage door was opened it closes the garage door.

A smartthings multi sensor is used to determine if the door is open or closed and a presence sensor in my car alerts my system to when i leave and when i come home. Put the presence sensor in your car the multi sensor in your garage to detect movement and use the z wave outlet to act as a relay control. I then installed the ridiculously automated garage door smartapp to make everything work automatically. Ridiculously automated garage door author.

You specify a different door to watch. The device type can alias the on open and off close commands and attributes. This is a minimally modified version of ridiculously automated garage door by smartthings to accommodate myq garage door openers. Folks could write their garage door types to have both capability switch and door control then custom smartapp code not needed.

Smartthings monitors arrival and departure of car s and 1 opens door when car arrives 2 closes door after car has departed for n minutes 3 opens door when car door motion is detected 4 closes door when door was opened due to arrival and interior door is closed.