My neighbor texted me my garage door was open. Sure enough, it was. I’m trying to figure out what happened. The logs said it was opened “2 days ago” at 9:30:22. But it didn’t say what caused it to open. I’m looked at the HA logs and sure enough I see it opened at that time. I checked my automations, nothing triggered around that time. ESPHOME wasn’t much help, looking at RATGDO logs.
Does anything tell you if a rolling code opened the garage? Maybe a neighbor’s door got linked to mine. It happened all long time ago.
If there is nothing in the logs then usually that means it’s an external event that triggered it.
Like push of a physical button or a cloud service that is not integrated in HA
I have an automation that notifies me if door is open >10 minutes
As was said. It will usually say who or what opened it. Exception is external service. Do you have it connected with Alexa or nest? Is it exposed through voice assistant to those services. You can check with the services to see if it was activated I believe.
Open door with remote and check logs. This we’ll show you how that appears in HA log.
My Google Automations didn’t run anything related if the “last run” column is correct. RATGDO logs didn’t show anything, but who knows with that.
That leaves handheld remotes.
I have a keypad opener (which is basically a handheld remote) mounted outside of the garage, but there is no way that I know of to see its history. I called my girl (who has my cat) if she opened it, but she didn’t.
When I got a new opener installed over the summer I only “learned” the keypad remote, a couple of handhelds, my BMW’s HomeLink button. Years ago (and a couple of garage door motors) I remember wiping my GD’s memory of all remotes, then learned a few HomeLink capable remotes. For the next few months, my GD randomly opened. I thought someone in the house was forgetting they opened/forgot to close until one day I was home alone and it opened while I was at a window and I saw one of my neighbors entering/leaving their garage. I’m guessing their remote must have been pressed and caught by my GD in learning mode. I wiped my GD and re-learned my remotes. Never had the problem again.
I suppose the same thing could have happened again, one of my neighbors remote got learned while my GD was learning my devices. I wish there was a way to determine which external remote did the deed.
Ratgdo should show when it was opened. Do you have cameras allowing you to see if it correlates to neighbor arriving or leaving? Any other day relevant to the time.
And NATO military spec radios. Live near a base of some type? That’s what mine was. Well, ‘is’ technically… it could still happen. but like someone else above I put a notice on mine.
To add to that one, I have a nag automation that triggers immediately if the garage (or any door) is opened when zone.home is zero or if the alarm is set.
By the way, I bought a few of these devices along with remotes which I hooked up via ESPHome. It’s three channels so by paring remotes to each channel you can see which remote was used and when. Currently I’m just using it for a gate, but was thinking of using those for my garage opener.
(Have to carefully consider if still using the built-in receiver on the garage door itself or not, of course, as you don’t want to get locked out…)
Ok, I found the culprit! It was not the pigeon, may he R.I.P.
About a couple of months ago I migrated HomeAssistant to new hardware. New docker setup, containers, radios, the works.
And guess what I failed to do? I didn’t stop the old HomeAssistant container. So its automations were conflicting with the new ones.
This is the second dumbest technology mistake I ever made. The first was when we were trying to connect our Apple][ computers with 300 baud acoustic couplers. We spent hours trying. It turns out I had plugged the phone into the wrong NID port. My dad was so embarrassed we didn’t tell the others what was the problem. But hey, I was 11 years old.
but like someone else above I put a notice on mine.
