Making a zone secure upon arming

[cornutt]

OK, so I did a bunch of work this afternoon, and I now have sensors on the garage door and relays in a relay module that can activate the opener. I wrote some code that closes the doors -- it checks the status of each door zone, and for any zone that is not ready, it activates the corresponding relay to close the door. Then I thought, "Aha, I can run this macro in a WHEN ARM NIGHT rule, and it will close the doors when I arm the system!"

Trouble is, without enabling auto bypass, if a door is open any attempt to arm to NIGHT mode fails immediately. The rule never gets a chance to run. I can make it work by enabling auto bypass; the rule runs and the doors are closed before the bypass time expires. But I don't want to run the system with auto bypass enabled.

Is there a way around this? Something that I haven't thought of?

 

[networkcrasher]

I have my garage doors set to general inputs so that the alarm doesn't use them for arming/alarm triggers. I couldn't think of a good reason to have them to set off the alarm, and I also realized I didn't want to arm the alarm, open the garage door, leave the garage, and close the door in an appreciable time. I do the same thing where I close the doors when night is activated.

I also didn't want to make the garage doors secure, come home late at night when my wife is home, in bed, with night activated, and set off the alarm.

I suppose if someone can somehow get the garage doors open, they deserve the paint and brooms I have in the garage. If they try to get into the house, then the alarm will start panicking.