door opener with toggle switches question

Is it possible to use 2 switches or 2 toggles to work the door opener in the garage. I am tired of trying to stop the door at the height I want it open. I figured since there is 2 wires coming from the censer you would need 2 but I am no electrician maybe there is a better way or I am on the right track   
thanks guys for any input..

Don't need two. Basically all you do is short the two wires together to operate the door. Problem is it operates as a toggle, so short them once, it opens, short again it closes, again, it opens etc.
Most doors will let you stop it by shorting the wires while the door is moving. The trick there is timing. To get the door to stop where you want it, you need to time it right. 
Not sure what you're using as a system but try to set the time to basically close the switch for one second, then wait one second and close the switch again. If it is not open enough, increase the "wait" one more second until it's where you want it.

Frunple said:

Don't need two. Basically all you do is short the two wires together to operate the door. Problem is it operates as a toggle, so short them once, it opens, short again it closes, again, it opens etc.
Most doors will let you stop it by shorting the wires while the door is moving. The trick there is timing. To get the door to stop where you want it, you need to time it right. 
Not sure what you're using as a system but try to set the time to basically close the switch for one second, then wait one second and close the switch again. If it is not open enough, increase the "wait" one more second until it's where you want it.

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Its a liftmaster unit..1/2 horse

You can also just disable the power to the Liftmaster wherever the door is sitting at.
 
Here utilize multipaddle UPB switches.  
 
It would be easy to assign one paddle to link to a UPB switch supplying power to the garage door opener that I have (which is also a liftmaster).
 
I've never done this before but it is a PITA to stop the door in one place with the current garage door controllers.
 
Personally here I have not touched the built in (safety "do whats") garage door stuff and have added multiple sensors for the garage doors. 
 
That said there is very little automation and much non invasive monitoring going on with the garage doors these days.

pete_c said:

I've never done this before but it is a PITA to stop the door in one place with the current garage door controllers.

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Pete:
 
That's because you don't use the 'ultimate' garage door sensor to sense the door's exact location!
 
I'm being a bit extreme here, but how cool would it be to have the voltage from the potentiometer in that sensor go to a comparator with the compared voltage connected to a slider potentiometer.  You adjust the resistance of the slider pot so it meets the 0-100 percent voltage output of the garage door sensor's pot output.
 
You see where this is going...you could then slide the pot up and down to represent the percentage that you want the garage door to be at!
 
Of course, there are other factors that need to be thought out, such as what happens if you start with the door opened (comparator already 'tripped'), and how to start the door's travel.
 
This would be a cool project though and could possibly be a task implemented using something like an Arduino (for the control logic and voltage comparison so you don't have to use individual components).
 
If I only had more time...
 
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pete_c said:

You can also just disable the power to the Liftmaster wherever the door is sitting at.
 
Here utilize multipaddle UPB switches.  
 
It would be easy to assign one paddle to link to a UPB switch supplying power to the garage door opener that I have (which is also a liftmaster).
 
I've never done this before but it is a PITA to stop the door in one place with the current garage door controllers.
 
Personally here I have not touched the built in (safety "do whats") garage door stuff and have added multiple sensors for the garage doors. 
 
That said there is very little automation and much non invasive monitoring going on with the garage doors these days.

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Pete, that's it just put a light switch in to kill the power to the opener like a light simple didn't think of that to you just mention it.
thanks

Thank-you BSR!
 
@cobrahd1999
 
Many years ago in automating the garage door thing with sensors and remote control I did have it set up nicely.
 
A bunch of if then do this type stuff relating to the garage door closing and opening and status of the alarm.
 
The problem I ran in to was predicting what my wife was doing when going into the garage.
 
I did have an alarm keypad in the garage.  You had to get out of the car to disable the house alarm. (1990's)
 
One day she pulled into the garage while on a cellular phone conference call. 
 
The automation at the time (it was simple) just automatically shut the garage door after a few minutes and did close while she sat in the automobile chatting on the phone and while the automobile was running. 
 
She did panic and disable the alarm but the whole endeavor was very low on the WAF.