Garage Door Status Notification

[TJohnston]

Trying to create program in Eisy that reads the status of the garage door sensor in an Insteon Garage Door Controller kit and send a notification if the door is open after a set time. Whenever the garage door is opened or closed via either the normal control panel or via the commands from the Eisy the position sensor will not update in the Eisy unless I run a query but I cannot figure out how to initiate a query before running the program If command such that it is reading the correct state. 

[paulbates]

Are you sure about the communication? the IOlinc that the garage door kit is based on is power line only, and garages can be in the further away on the powerline in the house.

Also, the garage door opener motor can make powerline noise.

What I've done is:

• Buy an Insteon filter and plug that into the wall and the garage door opener into that
• Time the actual amount of travel time of the door so you know how long the motor is running and making noise
• Use Control instead of status to run the program when the iolinc is activated
• Have your program wait the amount of time from the second bullet above, then run the query to make sure the door didn't stop for some reason .. hit something, reverse, etc

This may help too

• Up the amount of Insteon retries the iolinc has:
  • Right click on the iolinc in iox/admin console
  • Pick  Advanced > PLM Communications
  • Up it to something like 3 or 4
  • This is not a good general practice for all devices, but I use in my the iolincs monitoring my sump pump.

[slimypizza]

I have the IOlinc garage door kit and I key on the garage door sensor to determine the status of the door (ie open or closed - ON/OFF).  It updates on its own, without needing to query.  You should have two devices that show up in your AC: garage door relay and garage door sensor.

Edited July 29 by slimypizza

[KSaccullo01]

I'm using an OpenGrage sensor. Same person that makes Opensprinkler.

There is no native eisy plugin for OpenGarge. What I use is home assistant running inside a VM on EISY. I then have HA trigger a program on EISY. In my use the EISY program makes one of my homeseer dimmers flash red on the top LED. 

[Rocketron]

I added these to my garage doors to give a reliable indication of open/closed.

https://www.flairsecurity.com/overhead-door-magnetic-contacts/

They can be added to the IOlinc.

A simpler solution is using a hinge with a sensor. I used this on another garage door with a Zwave sensor

 

[apostolakisl]

A sensor that tells you the door is moving and which way would be nice.  I have issues with my automation where, for example, the garage door is already closing, and a program gets triggered to close the door, and it doesn't know the door is already closing, so it "hits the button", which of course reverses the door to go back open.