Control garage door using home assistant without live wiring

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Hi
I wanted to avoid the live wiring + keep the garage door motor clean.
I have done a hack to add my garage door control into home assistant using RF Remote.

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Wanted to share here if anyone is looking to avoid the electrical wiring while adding wifi to garage door

YouTube: https://youtu.be/rN_rt7zWKl4
Blog post: http://accordingtoalinahid.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-story-of-hack-job.html?m=1

Thanks

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Nice one! I’m still locking for a solution as well. As I don’t have a spare remote, I wanted to use something like a Broadlink to emulate the original remote.
My system is a closed source system (yepp, thanks to my landlord - not), with extremely expensive parts (I’m quite sure, they sell these cheap to the buiders, and afterwards the users have to make it profitable): a spare remote is around 120.-€ each…

For your open/close/pause problem, I’d use two of the cheap Xiaomi/Aqara door/window sensors. One at the upper end of the garage door, one at the lower end. This way you will get three states: open, close and neither of both. Open or close is usable, if neither of them, send the command and wait a few seconds - than you should get either open or close… :slight_smile:

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Thanks. If you are thinking about emulating RF signal using broadlink please double check if you can map rolling code in it. I failed with Sonoff RF bridge because of the rolling code issue. Not sure if broadlink solves it or not?

Also check out this https://bondhome.io/
These guys claim that their device can map rolling code. I almost bought one until I figured to hack the RF remote.

Thanks for the tips on the open/close state. I was thinking similar, but your one is better.

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@alinahid looks like a cool product but would be great to get rolling code working on the Sonoff RF bridge

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@alinahid LOVE this, I have the EXACT same remote and controller (based on the video, is it a steel-line SD800??). I couldn’t see how to access the exposed wiring when I looked at it (was originally going to buy something like you mentioned).

I’m a fellow aussie, will give this ago myself based on the video and instructions.

Question, where can you get a remote for $15? Would love to set this all up from scratch.

I plan to use xiaomi window/door sensors to check state of completely closed / not completely closed (not a perfect solution but good enough for me when I can’t see the door).

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I ended up going with a z-wave garge controller, cost more but it connects direclty into the device using the two remote access ports on top.

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Great idea. I was looking to this and while googling I found this https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-re5v1c.html
It looks like great ideas quickly find an implementation.