What s interesting is that my garage door opener doesn t meet those requirements when it is activated remotely using the rf remote fob that comes with it.
Esp8266 garage door opener smartthings.
Welcome to the 13th raspberry pi tutorial.
Diy garage door opener with esp8266 module and rpi published on.
Warning if using an esp8266 make sure you are using v2 5 2 of the arduino esp8266 board manager v2 4 2 4 1 introduced a memory leak causing st anythign to crash after an hour or two along with.
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.
Thought i d do something a little different today and just show a demo in the video below and write out the steps to the actual project here and on github.
Meross smart garage door opener remote app control compatible with alexa google assistant and smartthings multiple notification modes no hub needed upgrade version white 4 5 out of 5 stars 535 49 99 49.
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.
Without hub connected device documentation from samsung smartthings i have no way to know how to support the new smartthings connect app.
Smartthings triggers the relay which completes the circuit pushing the garage door opener button.
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.
It s a fairly new requirement since 2015 and it s specifically intended to apply to openers that can be used out of sight of the garage door.
But at the end of every attempt i still had the same.
Control your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with the smartthings app for iphone or android.
Why my fourth try.
I used an esp8266 nodemcu with a 5v relay connected normally open directly to the terminals on the back of the garage door opener unit.
Esp8266 wifi garage door remote.
The reason i wanted this was to be able to close my garage door remotely in case i left it open accidentally.
The gocontrol linear z wave garage door opener remote controller is a no frills option for those with a z wave smart home but it s not a good choice if you just want to open and close your.
Because all of my other attempts involved setting up a raspberrypi configuring home assistant an mqtt broker smartthings mqtt bridge configuring paths etc etc all i wanted was for it to just work.