Remootio garage door automation - new product

[SadGamerGeek (Richard Harnwell)]

I also sent them some links to this site, and I’ve had a reply:

Thank you for your input about the API, we will look into Home Assistant and see how we could provide an API to integrate with it

Seems positive!

[Kamal_Krishna]

Here’s the update about the integration from Remootio.

WebsocketApiDocs.pdf

[Kamal_Krishna]

Can someone please Integrate this, pretty please…

[perimore]

+1. I would love to see this integrated too

[_Miguel_Moreno]

+1 it would be great if we have this in home assistant

[bartomnisound (Bart Van Damme)]

Hi Guys,

I’m now to HA and had the exact same problem.
I wanted to integrate my remootio with HA.
After some thinking about to make my own integration…
I’ve noticed that remootio is “Smartthings” compatible and there is also an integration for smart things.
Tried it that way and its works So I’m now able to control my garage from HA

May be this can be useful for somebody

[perimore]

Yes, this is by far the easiest way to integrate!! Works a charm

[perimore]

Is anyone finding SmartThings suddenly reporting Remootio as being offline? Happened twice now. First time I reregistered it and it came back to life. This time just seeing if it fixes itself.

[replicator]

I’m having the same problem.
It worked fine when I first added it, now HA generates an internal server error when trying to open or close the door, and the Smartthings app says ‘A network or server error occurred. Try again later’
Haven’t tried re-registering it yet.

[bartomnisound (Bart Van Damme)]

I have the exact same problem…

[perimore]

I deleted the entity in smartthings and re added it. Then HA picks up the new entity and you can delete the old. Fairly easy but annoying and I don’t know why it happens.

Although the issue seems to be in SmartThings and not HA. Actions fail there too

[cavaco (André Cavaco)]

Would love to get this integrated into homeassistant , been using it trought smarthings , but would like it just to integrate to HA

[leudocagece]

@replicator

It worked fine when I first added it, now HA generates an internal server error when trying to open or close the door, and the Smartthings app says ‘A network or server error occurred. Try again later’
Haven’t tried r

I would love to see this integrated too!

[dylanhaskins]

Hey all, I found this post while looking for an existing integration myself, seems there still wasn’t one, so I just created one as an extension to node-red in home assistant. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

node-red-contrib-remootio (node) - Node-RED (nodered.org)

[degreecy (PB)]

Did anyone get anywhere with writing an integration for Remootio ? I don’t really want to have another hub i.e. smartthings.

[sebforrest (Christopher Forrest)]

Hi Dylan, thanks for taking the time to integrate this. I’ve had a go at using your node-red remootio integration, and have a small issue regarding the switch: remmotio node. I have two switch: remootio nodes. One for Open and one for Close. If I trigger sendOpen it opens the gate perfectly, however if I then try to trigger sendClose, sendOpen seems to be stored default. Sorry if this doesn’t make complete sense, however I am new to node-red. Any help would be much appriciated. It could be that i need to clear the node in my flow after the action has completed, but to be honest I’m a bit stuck?

[dylanhaskins]

Hey Christopher,

Thanks for making use of the integration and for reporting this, nice find , I have just fixed this and published ver 1.0.11.

Let me know how you go with that.

Dylan.

[ScottCasey]

Hey Dylan

As there is no option yet for integration, I have downloaded Node-red and could follow about step 1 then got overwhelmed. Do you have any instructions I could follow to connect my 3 remootio devices to HA.

I have done like the rest of the people and used smart things but it just breaks.

Thanks in advance Scott

[sebforrest (Christopher Forrest)]

Hi Scott,

Using the nodes Dylan kindly provided in NodeRed, I came up with the following solution. Please be aware that I am only in the process of learning NodeRed myself and therefore I’m sure there is a better way to accomplish / streamline what I’ve done.

1. I connected the remootio to NodeRed using the events.remootio node.
2. I created a sensor in NodeRed that updates a template switch in HomeAssistant so I could operate the gate and see its current status (Open / Closed).
3. I realised that if someone opens the Remootio App, the events.remootio node updates. This was constantly sending me an ios notification saying the gates had been opened (even though they were open). Therefore I tried to add a function and switch node to catch the errors and stop multiple ios push notifications.
4. I created a switch in NodeRed that links back to the same template switch in HomeAssistant so I can open and close the gates when toggled.

I’ve included a photo of my flow.

I hope this helps and if anyone has a better solution It would be great to see.

Many thanks,

Chris

[perimore]

Hi Chris,

This is interesting as I too installed Node-Red and Dylan’s extension but have never used Node-Red before and couldn’t work out how to link into HA. I’ll give your switch template a go and I think it could be combined with a cover template as shown in the example in this thread

Template cover for garage door

Hello I have just looked into Template cover for my garage door. I have a magnet sensor that has the states “on” and “off”, on being an open door. I have made a sensor of it that returns “Åpen” and “Lukket”. When I hen try to use that sensor in my template cover nothing happens. The state of the cover is “open” whatever I do. This is in my configuration.yaml cover: - platform: template covers: garage_door: device_class: garage friendly_name: "Garage Door" …

Ideally I want to get away from any cloud service and rely on the direct API. If this works I’ll be installing Remootio into some electric gates I have which use an unreliable cloud service too.