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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Z wave or smarthings compatible garage opener (alien.top)

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

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Hello Looking for options to control garage via smartthings. Had myq for a while but it’s not working with smartthings not with the workarounds I had in place.

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

Thanks, checked out the gocontrol. Seems like this is the way to go for me. Do you use it? Is it pretty reliable and does it work with the new edge drivers?

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

I have used 2 go controls on my garage door openers for like 7 years now. Work great. About 5 yrs in the tilt sensors started getting flakey. They use a small ball bearing capsule thing to sense tilt. I replaced those with small mercury tilt switches off of eBay and have been flawless since. Used initially with Abode security system, then mov d to HomeSeer.