Sliding Gate

Hardware
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Good morning guys

I’ve recently come across HA and busy with the setup process.
I do have one question that I need help with. My front gate is on sliding rails and works off a motor.
Currently to open the gate I use my remote. I would like to know what devices I could use to open the gate remotely and with HA? Like a Fibaro binary sensor?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Lots of different ways.

Is there a push button on the gate? You could wire it up to a relay switch.

If the remote uses 433mhz RF you could clone the signal using something like a broadlink rm pro (however it won’t work if your remote uses rolling codes)

You could hack a spare remote and connect the remote button to a relay switch.

I think you need to share some more information about your gate.

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There is a push button to the gate.
From what I remember the installer said the board allows a certain basic input, like on/off.

The remote has rolling frequencies though.

What more information would you recommend to get? I know it’s a centurion motor.

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Is there wire from gate toninside home for operation.

Is wifi possible

I have dedicated AP at gate to extend network out to network switch. I connect camera and raspberry pi running HA to switch. Raspi use gpio to control open and open/close sensor. I use mqtt to connect this pi to main HA on server(direct API would be best. I will eventually change this)

There is WiFi at this location also so esp8266 contolling relays could work.

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Yup. U need to wire a relay across the switch and connect the relay up to a WiFi device. The device could be a sonoff low voltage or esp8266 + relay or rasp pi + relay. Could also use a zigbee or zwave relay if you don’t want to diy.

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