Home Assistant Garage Door

Cheap and easy home assistant garage door control.

Home assistant garage door.

Home assistant has a component called an input boolean which can essentially be used as a way to store state values. The myq cover platform lets you control myq enabled garage doors through home assistant. The first thing we need for this are two magnetic reed switches to detect open and closed states. To enable template covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file.

Device names in home assistant are generated based on the names defined in your myq device mobile app. Home assistant can give you an interface to control covers such as rollershutters blinds and garage doors. The way these sensors are displayed in the frontend can be modified in the customize section. Diy garage door opener home assistant by xo july 29 2020 july 31st 2020 no comments.

I ve had this setup for the better part of a year and thought i would share it in case it helps anyone else control their garage door. This hardware has been running with tasmota firmware for the bulk of. Left garage door garage2. Here s how to use mqtt a tilt sensor and home assistant to make your diy garage door opener even smarter.

If you use home assistant like me you ll want to integrate control of the smart garage door opener with the rest of your smarthome. It uses the mqtt protocol to communicate to home assistant. Home assistant is the main method i use for opening my garage other than the integrated remote in my car. This is the default and doesn t need to be set.

I wanted to build my own garage door opener sensor for the purpose of monitoring my garage and managing the garage door. Example configuration yaml entry cover. Wemos garage door opener took an hour or two to build and about five dollars in parts from aliexpress. The following device classes are supported for covers.

Example configuration yaml entry cover. To enable opengarage covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file. Connect to home assistant using mqtt with tilt sensor. The opengarage cover platform lets you control the open source opengarage io device through home assistant.