I’m very new to HA and am in the process of moving everything over from Hubitat. I’ve been setting up Alarmo with my Zigbee binary sensors, and I want to also use my Meross garage door sensors, but they are categorized as covers rather than doors. Is there a way to make this work? Or is it possible to create a virtual binary sensor than I can trigger with an automation?
Hi,
A few options you could look at.
- Create a new Helper (Binary Sensor Template helper) to match your cover status. The template could be something like {{ states(‘cover.yourcoverentity’) }}. I just did this exact thing & i can include my garage door now.
- You certainly could create a separate automation to do something like send notifications if the garage is opened while the alarm is armed.
- Contact the developer of Alarmo to support covers directly.
Cheers
NIck
I’ve created the template and it looks as though it should work, but it’s state doesn’t change when I open or close my garage door.
Edit: I figured it out. Since my garage door entity (cover) was reporting open/closed, the binary sensor wasn’t interpreting the state, so I did this and it worked:
{{ is_state(‘cover.east_garage_door_msg100_main_channel’, ‘open’) }}
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