What do people do when it comes to hooking up their garage door(s) to their alarm? I wonder if its more trouble than its worth? Let me explain. I have three zones for my garage door, one for when its closed, one when its open, and a wall of IR beams across it to tell if something like a car hatch is in the way. These are for home automation and all those are working.
So now I'm thinking about how I will enable the alarm for these. I guess easiest is just to use the door closed zone for that, but I always have the fear that a stray RF signal could open the door when we were away, and I don't want that to trigger the alarm. (This did happen to a neighbor.) So instead, I'd like to use the beam zone, but its not battery backed up so a power outage could trigger it. Because of this I was thinking, I could use Omni logic and only trigger an Omni output IF both the garage is not closed AND the beam is broken. This output could trigger a relay and the relay would be connected to a zone called "Garage"
Has anyone used a relay to trigger a zone? It has been talked about. Another idea is to just forget the alarm on the garage door. Has anyone ever heard of someone being robbed when them breaking in through the garage overhead door? It doesn't seem very common. Is it worth it to monitor the garage overhead door with the alarm?
So now I'm thinking about how I will enable the alarm for these. I guess easiest is just to use the door closed zone for that, but I always have the fear that a stray RF signal could open the door when we were away, and I don't want that to trigger the alarm. (This did happen to a neighbor.) So instead, I'd like to use the beam zone, but its not battery backed up so a power outage could trigger it. Because of this I was thinking, I could use Omni logic and only trigger an Omni output IF both the garage is not closed AND the beam is broken. This output could trigger a relay and the relay would be connected to a zone called "Garage"
Has anyone used a relay to trigger a zone? It has been talked about. Another idea is to just forget the alarm on the garage door. Has anyone ever heard of someone being robbed when them breaking in through the garage overhead door? It doesn't seem very common. Is it worth it to monitor the garage overhead door with the alarm?