Smartthings Garage Door Routines

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.

Smartthings garage door routines.

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. You can also use routines to change the status of smart home monitor armed home armed away disarmed and smartthings mode home away night. 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. This z wave garage door opener provides peace of mind convenience security and safety.

I purchased a myq garage door opener and integrated with st. My entire home is pretty much fully integrated. I have been using my 2 garadget garagedoor opener devices integrated with my smartthings 2 0 hub for a while now. Not worried too much when is being opened but when it.

Manage your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with smartthings routines for good morning goodbye good night and more. 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. 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. Turn on or off lights and switches lock or unlock doors and open or close garage doors.

A garage door is a big heavy mechanical device and before ul standards were released and became widely adopted accidents were common. Under the doors locks section select new door. Connect the gd00z 4 with smartthings to open or close your garage door from anywhere perfect for allowing entry for a handyman or for closing the door if you forgot to. Currently using st version 2.

When the routine is told to run it will operate the devices you tell it to. I hvae 3 linear gd00z 4 z wave garage door devices hooked up to my garage doors. For this what you ll need is a garage door sensor for smartthings and smartthings hub. I created a routine in which when i leave the house itsecures and when returning it unsecures.

Well and a garage too of course. 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. These routines do other things like turn off lights lock doors. Easy enough to do in the smart things app on my phone however when i.

Then you have the option to pick either garage door or conventional door. A smartthings garage sensor is merely a sensor which monitors or controls a garage door.