Garage Door Automation Home Assistant

Notify ios device when garage door opens or closes.

Garage door automation home assistant.

Be sure to replace cover garage door 1 if the name of your garage door in home assistant is different. Esphome devices are automatically discovered by home assistant. The tailwind iq3 smart wifi garage door opener is the most responsive and reliable smart garage door controller we tested. The opengarage cover platform lets you control the open source opengarage io device through home assistant.

The cover we configured in esphome is automatically exposed to home assistant as well. Example configuration yaml entry cover. A while back a mate asked me to connect his garage door to his phone. Garage door controls in home assistant.

Lastly you will need to mount the device and connect the final wires up to the garage door opener. The iq3 also makes it easy to arrive home to an open door thanks to. On the back of your garage door opener there are typically 3 pins. Common terminal with multiple pairs of wires.

To use this automation you must have the home assistant ios app installed on your iphone and must have the ios. Seeing most garage doors have terminals on them to connect up a push button switch it is pretty easy to connect up a smart device that can trigger the door when we did this the only option in our region was using a wemo. Left garage door garage2. The nexx garage is the best smart garage door opener for alexa users but it works with google home too so you can open or close the door using voice commands.

Here is my garage door in lovelace. Because of the contact sensor home assistant knows exactly if the garage door is opened or closed and the arrows. To enable opengarage covers in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file.