Garage door open
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BraveSirRobbin
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Lots of ways to monitor the door itself. Do you have any cable running from your garage door area to the HAI unit?
Lots of ways to monitor the door itself. Do you have any cable running from your garage door area to the HAI unit?
apostolakisl
Senior Member
I have the door as a unique zone on the alarm system. Then I took a standard garage door remote, opened it up, and wired the button to a relay on the alarm panel. The alarm panel is close enough to the garage door that the wireless remote covers the distance. I have three garage doors and did this for all three (used a three button remote). I wrote a task on my Elk which evaluates the status of each door and, if open, closes the open ones when the task is run. I now have several programs that trigger that task as need be including arming.
The program will fail under two conditions, there is something blocking the door, and if someone left the door in the partial open position with the next click of the button going to the open direction. I could add to the task a second evaluation 10 seconds or so later and rerun the task and that would fix the latter problem. The first problem is obviously not something that can be fixed by HA. Neither of those problems have ever happened to my recolection.
The program will fail under two conditions, there is something blocking the door, and if someone left the door in the partial open position with the next click of the button going to the open direction. I could add to the task a second evaluation 10 seconds or so later and rerun the task and that would fix the latter problem. The first problem is obviously not something that can be fixed by HA. Neither of those problems have ever happened to my recolection.
apostolakisl
Senior Member
Yes. You can do the exact same thing hard wired to the door opener itself instead of hard wired to the remote. Just connect to the two leads that when closed activates the door.
Sacedog
Active Member
FWIW, I would not have it close automatically for safety reasons. I used to have mine do that, until I left the hatch open on my SUV one evening. Now I have a nice scratch on it. <_< I ended up having my system notify me via voice if the garage door is open after 8PM. I also get an E-mail if the door is left up 5 minutes after the alarm is armed.
So all I have to do is run a wire from wall switch to my panel. Sounds like I will need to purchase the HAI 4 Relay. I will connect one end to The form C relay slot. The other end to the switch on the wall.
I then purchase a garage magnet sensor wired to a zone on my panel.
If night and garage zone open close garage relay arm night mode and then open relay.
Last question. If I go to arm the night, will it let me since the garage zone is open?
Interesting, does it go through your Russound Cam 6?
apostolakisl
Senior Member
The Elk panel has the ability to designate a zone as a "force arm" zone (I am pretty sure I have that term right but could be mixing it up). Anyway, assuming that is what they call it, it allows you to arm the system with that zone open and then as soon as that zone becomes secure it incorporates into the protected zones. I bet your HAI panes has something similar.
Otherwise, I think you've got it. You only need to have your relay close command last about one second, probably not even that long.
