Requesting a garage door sensor type.
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@172pilot I have some code that worked most of the time. I would occasionally get some false obstruction notifications, but other than that it worked well for opening and closing the door. The obstruction issues could possibly have been from the way my node was set up and not from the code. I have a thread that I started to document the project. My latest 2.0 code that I used with Domotics is posted at the end of the thread. I had another thread going where I posted some icon files that I created for Domoticz. One of the icon sets that I did was for my garage door controller. I didn't have one for the door position, but it wouldn't be that hard to do one for that. Here is the link to that. The way I had my nightly routine set up in Domotics was that at 11PM every night the system would check to see if the door was open, and close it if it was. Between 11PM and 4AM I had a constant check on the door and if it was open, it would close it again within a minute for security. I didn't do much with the obstruction other than to send push notifications to my phone that there was an obstruction event.
I have since switched to a Vera Plus controller and am working on converting things for that. I was planning on re-visiting this thread a little bit before I saw your post here. Having a dedicated garage door sensor type and node object in Vera for a garage door would be really nice. My thinking is that the Vera device would have the opener control and door position combined into one device definition file. That is still a big work in progress though.
@dbemowsk
Hi there I built a garage door opener sensor using the "Relay Actuator" sensor from the "Built" section , which is perfect for me. My issue is that I want the relay to activate for half a second to a second and than deactivate, and the existing code on the Relay Actuator Sensor would have to be modified a bit and that's where I get stuck, any input would be greatly appreciated.
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@172pilot I have some code that worked most of the time. I would occasionally get some false obstruction notifications, but other than that it worked well for opening and closing the door. The obstruction issues could possibly have been from the way my node was set up and not from the code. I have a thread that I started to document the project. My latest 2.0 code that I used with Domotics is posted at the end of the thread. I had another thread going where I posted some icon files that I created for Domoticz. One of the icon sets that I did was for my garage door controller. I didn't have one for the door position, but it wouldn't be that hard to do one for that. Here is the link to that. The way I had my nightly routine set up in Domotics was that at 11PM every night the system would check to see if the door was open, and close it if it was. Between 11PM and 4AM I had a constant check on the door and if it was open, it would close it again within a minute for security. I didn't do much with the obstruction other than to send push notifications to my phone that there was an obstruction event.
I have since switched to a Vera Plus controller and am working on converting things for that. I was planning on re-visiting this thread a little bit before I saw your post here. Having a dedicated garage door sensor type and node object in Vera for a garage door would be really nice. My thinking is that the Vera device would have the opener control and door position combined into one device definition file. That is still a big work in progress though.
@dbemowsk I'm on a VeraLite controller, but have been thinking of switching to the plus too.. Having the object type defined in MySensors and Vera would be very nice, but that is beyond anything I've done in either environment.. I'd love to learn though, so if there's any way to contribute, I'm all ears.. forcing garage door functionality into a 'switch' type object just doesn't quite fit the bill..
One difference between your concept and mine I guess is that my close door timer logic is built into the sensor itself... I didn't want any communication problem with a controller to accidentally leave the garage open. If the sensor is working, it is self sufficient.. One other thing I didn't mention is that I've got an RFID reader on it so that I can open the door with an RFID token.. Not sure how or if this would fit in to a garage door object.. In a perfect world, I'd love to manage the list of active tokens on the host side, so it might make sense to have the RFID section defined as a separate device that then remotely triggers a garage open event..
All this activity on the thread has inspired me to bring back up my old code and check it out after 3 months of walking away, and I think I may have found my reboot problem - I think I'm using the generic softwareserial to read the RFID reader.. I think there's a specific ESP SoftSerial module that may work better.. Maybe I'm tripping the WDT.
If there's a place to post my code for comment or inclusion into someone else's code, I'd be happy to do so.. It's messy but maybe having others look at it will help, and/or someone who is more famliar with the MySensors stuff can help put in the hooks to the controller. Right now, I have removed all the MySensors stuff for troubleshooting my basic functionality and reboots..
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@dbemowsk
Hi there I built a garage door opener sensor using the "Relay Actuator" sensor from the "Built" section , which is perfect for me. My issue is that I want the relay to activate for half a second to a second and than deactivate, and the existing code on the Relay Actuator Sensor would have to be modified a bit and that's where I get stuck, any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks@RoushRS3 said:
@dbemowsk
Hi there I built a garage door opener sensor using the "Relay Actuator" sensor from the "Built" section ,Yeah.. With that, it's just a device to open/close your door, right? Can you use that to detect the state of the door? (open/closed) And as for the button, yeah.. I haven't looked hard, but I think a "doorbell' kind of device object would be perfect, but I haven't seen that..
Ultimately, a full implementation of a garage door object would be awesome.. I just wish I knew where to start..
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@dbemowsk I'm on a VeraLite controller, but have been thinking of switching to the plus too.. Having the object type defined in MySensors and Vera would be very nice, but that is beyond anything I've done in either environment.. I'd love to learn though, so if there's any way to contribute, I'm all ears.. forcing garage door functionality into a 'switch' type object just doesn't quite fit the bill..
One difference between your concept and mine I guess is that my close door timer logic is built into the sensor itself... I didn't want any communication problem with a controller to accidentally leave the garage open. If the sensor is working, it is self sufficient.. One other thing I didn't mention is that I've got an RFID reader on it so that I can open the door with an RFID token.. Not sure how or if this would fit in to a garage door object.. In a perfect world, I'd love to manage the list of active tokens on the host side, so it might make sense to have the RFID section defined as a separate device that then remotely triggers a garage open event..
All this activity on the thread has inspired me to bring back up my old code and check it out after 3 months of walking away, and I think I may have found my reboot problem - I think I'm using the generic softwareserial to read the RFID reader.. I think there's a specific ESP SoftSerial module that may work better.. Maybe I'm tripping the WDT.
If there's a place to post my code for comment or inclusion into someone else's code, I'd be happy to do so.. It's messy but maybe having others look at it will help, and/or someone who is more famliar with the MySensors stuff can help put in the hooks to the controller. Right now, I have removed all the MySensors stuff for troubleshooting my basic functionality and reboots..
@172pilot Mine will detect the state of the door. I tapped into the internal limit switches on my opener to do the detection. That part works well. I like your idea of putting the timer logic on the node itself, but do you have a way to set that from Vera? If not, I would have to reprogram the node if I ever wanted to change that. I do get not wanting to have a controller communication issue not close the door as I have experienced this.
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@172pilot Mine will detect the state of the door. I tapped into the internal limit switches on my opener to do the detection. That part works well. I like your idea of putting the timer logic on the node itself, but do you have a way to set that from Vera? If not, I would have to reprogram the node if I ever wanted to change that. I do get not wanting to have a controller communication issue not close the door as I have experienced this.
@dbemowsk said:
@172pilot I like your idea of putting the timer logic on the node itself, but do you have a way to set that from Vera? If not, I would have to reprogram the node if I ever wanted to change that.
I have the timer hardcoded in the node to 3 minutes, but I have a button that disables the timer until the next time the door is closed, which is how the one I've been using for the last 6 years works, but the new version I'm working on, I'm thinking of also making it so that if I manually stop the door between the limits, it wont start the timer..
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@dbemowsk said:
@172pilot I like your idea of putting the timer logic on the node itself, but do you have a way to set that from Vera? If not, I would have to reprogram the node if I ever wanted to change that.
I have the timer hardcoded in the node to 3 minutes, but I have a button that disables the timer until the next time the door is closed, which is how the one I've been using for the last 6 years works, but the new version I'm working on, I'm thinking of also making it so that if I manually stop the door between the limits, it wont start the timer..
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@dbemowsk said:
@172pilot So you don't have the node set to close the door at a certain time of the day?
Nope.. My current system was an old arduino uno based thing that I only did for the RFID and auto-close timer.. I've never successfully gotten one integrated with Vera or MySensors so it really hasn't been an option.. I probably will once I get all this done.. Hopefully as a Vera Scheduled event
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@RoushRS3 said:
@dbemowsk
Hi there I built a garage door opener sensor using the "Relay Actuator" sensor from the "Built" section ,Yeah.. With that, it's just a device to open/close your door, right? Can you use that to detect the state of the door? (open/closed) And as for the button, yeah.. I haven't looked hard, but I think a "doorbell' kind of device object would be perfect, but I haven't seen that..
Ultimately, a full implementation of a garage door object would be awesome.. I just wish I knew where to start..
@172pilot
yes it is a sensor/device to open and close, which is controlled via my Vera Lite Controller. I'm using the Door-Window Sensor (with simple Reed Switch) to detect the Door Status, and that works for me, but my issue is with the Relay-Actuator Sensor , it needs tot turn on and then immediately turn off, and it does not do that. I can have it turn on and then immediately turn off using a Scene on my Vera Controller, but it would me way more reliable if it was written in the code. We need the Gods of Mysensors Website to add it to the code. -
@RoushRS3 said:
Hi there I built a garage door opener sensor using the "Relay Actuator" sensor from the "Built" section , which is perfect for me. My issue is that I want the relay to activate for half a second to a second and than deactivate, but the existing code on the Relay Actuator Sensor would have to be modified a bit and that's where I get stuck, any input would be greatly appreciated.
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@172pilot
yes it is a sensor/device to open and close, which is controlled via my Vera Lite Controller. I'm using the Door-Window Sensor (with simple Reed Switch) to detect the Door Status, and that works for me, but my issue is with the Relay-Actuator Sensor , it needs tot turn on and then immediately turn off, and it does not do that. I can have it turn on and then immediately turn off using a Scene on my Vera Controller, but it would me way more reliable if it was written in the code. We need the Gods of Mysensors Website to add it to the code.@RoushRS3 said:
it needs tot turn on and then immediately turn off, and it does not do that.
If you look at the code for my garage door node, mine does that. Everything for that is handled by the node This is the code in the main loop that does that:
//If the relay is on, shut it off if ( digitalRead( DOOR_ACTUATOR_RELAY ) == 1) { relayOff(); }In the relayOff method the relay is shut off and then informs the controller that it has been shut off:
/** * relayOff - Used to turn off the door opener relay after the TOGGLE_INTERVAL */ void relayOff() { digitalWrite( DOOR_ACTUATOR_RELAY, RELAY_OFF ); //Added this to tell the controller that we shut off the relay send( msgOpener.set(0) ); } //End relayOffSo on the controller, you should see the switch turn on, and then immediately shut off.
