Recent content by TLGriff

Thanks W2P,   I feel better now anyway now that my "conscience is clear".   I'm more from the common sense side.What I'm talking about is automatically closing the door well after dark on the off chance that it gets left open by accident. And if there were children around here, I might...

I'm surprised the mods have let this post get so far off topic. If Elvis wants to talk about garage door safety, perhaps he should start a thread of his own, instead of hijacking mine.   Tom

Mike,   The switch is only closed for two seconds. I tried a one second delay, which I believe is the minimum and it was not totally reliable, so I bumped it up to two. The 15 second thing is just a delay for the announcement.   Work2Play,   Great user name. :) I will be using this same...

  Yup, that's what I did. My door takes 14 seconds to close so I added a second for good measure and it works fine. They must have had a hot rod door if it closed in 5 seconds. :)   Tom

I am monitoring the relay output (Out 3) to tell when the door state changes (when the relay closes), but the message itself comes from the input (Zn 15). After 15 seconds, when the door is fully open or closed, it reads (Zn 15). If it's open, the message is "Garage overhead door is open" and if...

I guess I didn't write my post very clearly. The first set of code is from Elk, which doesn't work. The second set shows the modifications I made to it and works fine. It is reading the garage door zone (Zn 15), but only after it is fully opened or closed. That was the problem with the Elk code...

This is the Elk example:   WHENEVER F4 KEY ON ANY KEYPAD ACTIVATES           THEN TURN Garage Door (Out 3) FOR 5 SECS   WHENEVER Garage Door (Out 3) STATE IS TURNED OFF           THEN ANNOUNCE Garage Door (Zn 3)   It works fine when opening the door, but if the door is open and F4 is pushed to...

I installed a Honeywell overhead door sensor on my garage door and have been working out some rules for it. So far I can close it with a function key on the keypad and it will announce when the door is fully open or closed. The rules are an adaptation of the sample from Elk which did not seem to...

I live in a two story with a walkout basement, and even though the doorwall and two windows down there have contacts, it makes me nervous at night. If someone were to break a window, there is no way I could hear it. There is a motion detector in the basement, but it is only armed in the away...

Thought I'd revisit this thread again after getting all of the bugs worked out.   RAL was correct in that there needed to be some sort of counter to keep the stairs motion sensor from unbypassing the basement if someone pauses on the stairs. There was also no allowance for a second person the go...

Done and works like a charm. This is what I ended up using:   WHENEVER Basement Stairs (Zn14) BECOMES NOT SECURE      AND Basement Motion (Zn 12) BYPASS STATE IS NOT BYPASSED         THEN BYPASS Basement Motion (Zn12)   WHENEVER Basement Stairs (Zn14) BECOMES NOT SECURE     AND Basement Motion...

  I'll keep that in mind for my next new construction. Pulling wires to this stairway would be a nightmare.   Tom

  I took the armed conditional out and the logic worked, so I'll try putting it back in at the top and see if it still works.   I did consider setting a counter to one or zero for bypass or not, but I'm going to beat on this logic for a while first. The counter will be a good backup plan. Is the...

  The wife doesn't share my enthusiasm for this stuff, so there isn't a volume level low enough. :)   But I will try that tomorrow.

Good call, it was not. I'll have to give it another test when I can afford to make loud noises. :)   Tom