Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Garage door + sonoff 4ch pro (imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by KingButtButts@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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[–] KingButtButts@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hi everyone, posted here around a month ago about some advice for the PCB board that controls my garage door. I got some suggestions to use a smart relay so I got a sonoff 4ch pro to trigger the opening of the garage door by using a wire in each START pin.

That works but the garage door opening/closing is continuous, also not sure where I am supposed to put the live wire to power the sonoff , I have the manual in the description of that image.

[–] velhaconta@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is most likely in the programming of the Sonoff. You want it to close the contacts momentarily, not hold it closed.

[–] KingButtButts@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok thanks I will try that, not sure if it will work now after short-circuiting the start pins it won't close the garage door anymore. The Time Set.P1 keeps flashing as it attempts to start

[–] velhaconta@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, won't work till you get that figured out.