Smartthings Garage Door Routines

These routines do other things like turn off lights lock doors.

Smartthings garage door routines.

You can also use routines to change the status of smart home monitor armed home armed away disarmed and smartthings mode home away night. Well and a garage too of course. A garage door is a big heavy mechanical device and before ul standards were released and became widely adopted accidents were common. Currently using st version 2.

I created a routine in which when i leave the house itsecures and when returning it unsecures. I hvae 3 linear gd00z 4 z wave garage door devices hooked up to my garage doors. The best idea i ve had which i haven t tried yet is to great a virtual switch in st have alexa turn the switch off and on and then create an st routine that controls the door based on the virtual switch. For this what you ll need is a garage door sensor for smartthings and smartthings hub.

Manage your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with smartthings routines for good morning goodbye good night and more. A smartthings garage sensor is merely a sensor which monitors or controls a garage door. However recently maybe associated with the last hub update i m not sure i have noticed that the routines that i have to ensure my garage doors are closed at night no longer actually close my garage doors. Automate other connected devices with smartthings and set them to turn on or off when your gocontrol garage door opener detects that your garage door has been opened or shut.

Turn on or off lights and switches lock or unlock doors and open or close garage doors. I purchased a myq garage door opener and integrated with st. I have been using my 2 garadget garagedoor opener devices integrated with my smartthings 2 0 hub for a while now. 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.

Easy enough to do in the smart things app on my phone however when i. Not worried too much when is being opened but when it. This z wave garage door opener provides peace of mind convenience security and safety. Ifttt and smartthings to open or close the door.

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. Under the doors locks section select new door. Now that i have an echo in the garage it would be really handy to be able to tell it to open or close the door. They all work great and i have no issues with them detecting the status and opening closing the garage doors until i put them in a routine i tried to create a routine where at a certain time if any of them are open it would close them.

My entire home is pretty much fully integrated. Then you have the option to pick either garage door or conventional door.