Smartthings Garage Door Monitor

On popular request request here is a smartapp to have the garage door open and close automatically when people arrive or leave with an optional timer and actions.

Smartthings garage door monitor.

Receive alerts from smartthings if your gocontrol garage door opener detects that your garage door has been left open for too long or opened unexpectedly. On popular request request here is a smartapp to have the garage door open and close automatically when people arrive or leave with an optional timer and actions. A garage door is a big heavy mechanical device and before ul standards were released and became widely adopted accidents were common. The best smart garage door openers let you bring what s probably the second most used door in your house into the 21st century.

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. Control your gocontrol garage door opener and other connected devices with the smartthings app for iphone or android. The iris z wave garage door controller gd 00z 1 along with smartthings allows you to remotely open close and monitor your garage door.

Check out the video and some other useful how to posts and stories about automating your garage door below and leave us any questions you may have in the comments section. Originally part of the enhanced z wave garage door controller device handler it has been enhanced and made compatible with a wide variety of garage door controllers including myq virtual garage door controller and other smartthings. 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. That s because a smart garage door opener lets you monitor and.

Originally part of the enhanced z wave garage door controller device handler it has been enhanced and made compatible with a wide variety of garage door controllers including myq virtual garage door controller and other smartthings. The good folks at mactechgenius just put together a video tutorial showing you how to monitor control and automate your garage door using smartthings.