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?
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.
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.
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.