Greetings all,
One of the first cool things I wanted to do with my HSPRO was to control my garage door, and know its status (opened or closed).
I finally did it, and I thought I would share with pictures and video the how-to.
First of, you need to be able to do some electrical cabling.
You will need a LFM20 module that you will wire to an electrical outlet (see pictures 1 and 2.
The other end of it will need to be connected to your garage door opener.
You will need to use the 2 blue cables, and connect them where the inside button (in your garage) is connected to. See that on pictures 3 and 4.
Finally, if you want to be able to get a status of the door (opened or closed), you will need to stick somewhere a Window/Door sensor (see picture 5 and 6). That's pretty cool to use, because you can do scripts and use the voice for example by saying "Garage door opened" or "Garage door closed". You can even do an event that check if the garage door is opened at 8PM (or has been opened for xx amount of minutes) then close it automatically.
My next step is to use RFID and make it so if my car moves away, and if the garage door is opened, then it will close it.
Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCb3Y86rC64
One of the first cool things I wanted to do with my HSPRO was to control my garage door, and know its status (opened or closed).
I finally did it, and I thought I would share with pictures and video the how-to.
First of, you need to be able to do some electrical cabling.
You will need a LFM20 module that you will wire to an electrical outlet (see pictures 1 and 2.
The other end of it will need to be connected to your garage door opener.
You will need to use the 2 blue cables, and connect them where the inside button (in your garage) is connected to. See that on pictures 3 and 4.
Finally, if you want to be able to get a status of the door (opened or closed), you will need to stick somewhere a Window/Door sensor (see picture 5 and 6). That's pretty cool to use, because you can do scripts and use the voice for example by saying "Garage door opened" or "Garage door closed". You can even do an event that check if the garage door is opened at 8PM (or has been opened for xx amount of minutes) then close it automatically.
My next step is to use RFID and make it so if my car moves away, and if the garage door is opened, then it will close it.
Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCb3Y86rC64
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