This is interesting. I’ll try to see if I can get it to work! The opener is very old and currently opens with a doorbell. It doesn’t even have obstruction sensors.
No garage for us so no personal experience setting up, but I know it from a few years of soaking up related info.
We use Homeassistant here & ratgdo is mentioned a lot when the subject comes up. There’s a whole thing about the manufacturers going to shit and locking down their remote options, hence that hack.
If yours is just a simple switch, something like a Shelly1 could do the job too. I’ve got one of those wired in parallel with our heating thermostat to control the boiler - either by user input or automatically based on other connected sensors :)
You can usually pick them up from the usual suspects (jungle shop, fleabay etc) too.
Failing that Sonoff do a fairly decent one - MINIR2/3/4, they have updated the model a few times. I use one of their ZBMINI switches as ZigBee is preferred here over WiFi where possible.
This one also worked well in our setup. It’s switching a small dehumidifier here.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is interesting. I’ll try to see if I can get it to work! The opener is very old and currently opens with a doorbell. It doesn’t even have obstruction sensors.
Thanks!
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No worries.
No garage for us so no personal experience setting up, but I know it from a few years of soaking up related info.
We use Homeassistant here & ratgdo is mentioned a lot when the subject comes up. There’s a whole thing about the manufacturers going to shit and locking down their remote options, hence that hack.
If yours is just a simple switch, something like a Shelly1 could do the job too. I’ve got one of those wired in parallel with our heating thermostat to control the boiler - either by user input or automatically based on other connected sensors :)
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Shelly1 is exactly almost exactly what I was picturing initially.
I was thinking I just need some sort of simple relay to send a signal.
Thank you! Shelly is out of stock right now but I’m sure there is something similar out there.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can usually pick them up from the usual suspects (jungle shop, fleabay etc) too.
Failing that Sonoff do a fairly decent one - MINIR2/3/4, they have updated the model a few times. I use one of their ZBMINI switches as ZigBee is preferred here over WiFi where possible.
This one also worked well in our setup. It’s switching a small dehumidifier here.