Hey folks!
I’d like to automate my garage door to open when I am about to arrive home. The rolling door is pretty slow (about 30s to fully open), so ideally I want it to open “soon enough” that I don’t have to wait. I live in quite dead-end-street, so early opening before I see the garage is not a huge security risk.
Here comes the catch, I only want to open it, when I am biking, not when walking. Unlike detecting a car, I don’t have any bluetooth-devices connected to the phone to determine if I’m biking. The only thing I could think of is moving speed (consider >10km/h as biking). Is there a way to get that in the app and combine it in an automation? It’d be fine to only fetch the speed when I already triggered by a geo fence though.
Thanks for any help making my liife easier!
Matthias
Speed caalculaations are heavily dependent on position frequency reporting, so I’d not count on these. Unreliable. Is there any way you can detect presence of your bike in garage? I mean some physical switch being installed thaty would be somehow pressed when the bike is in garage? Or (less reliable) switch you can flip leaving for biking?
For exaclty same logic as yours, I use car presence detection based on infrared distance sensor that either measures distaance to the garage floor or to roof of the car giving me indication if car is in or out and if I’m driving or walking to home and garage should or should not be opened.
The problem is that I have several too many bikes, so presence detection is not really an option. But press-button-on-leave seems like a option that might work for my routine. Thanks for the idea!
