Garage door reminder chime

[gsheremeta]

I'm looking for some verification on this, as I am a total newbie to timers and such.

Thanks to some advice from folks on another board, I've got an idea on how to build a really simple and cheap wired (not wireless) garage door reminder chime. I want my garage door closed pretty much all the time. While it's open, I'd like an audible reminder chime to be chirped every 60 seconds, 5 minutes, or something like that.

I don't have any other home automation stuff.

An Altronix 6062 seems to do exactly what I need. In the instructions for it, there is a schematic (figure 1) that shows a timed annunciator, which is exactly what I want. So I'll need this timer board, a power supply, a 12v chime (thinking of the one from Radio Shack), and a contact on the door -- probably the SECO-LARM SM-226L-3. Wire up that contact using the open circuit wires, hook up the chime and the power, and it should just work.

Anything I'm missing?

Thanks!

 

[signal15]

How much is it going to cost you? What you're talking about should work, but, if you're thinking of buying an ELK or HAI system in the near future, it might be better to put your money towards that and do it that way. If my garage is open for more than 5 minutes, I get a voice announcement. And I have it blink F4 on my keypad, and if I press it, it closes all garage doors.

The kid got his hands on my wife's keyfob a couple of days ago and opened the garage, letting the dog out. Had I not had that, the dog could have wandered off, getting hit by a car or impounded by animal control.

 

[WayneW]

Sounds like a plan. You might also like the Elk-960 timer module.

 

[gsheremeta]

I think it will cost maybe $60 or 70. Long term I would love a full system, but it's not in the budget for 2010.

 

[AutomateIt]

I used one of these before buying HomeSeer.
http://www.autocloser.com/products.asp

 

[pete_c]

Around 25 or so years ago with a Sears garage door opener on my detached garage I modified a wired garage door switch. It had a blinking LED on it when the garage door was open - I used the same circuit to create a chirp and it worked until I moved out of the home.