Trying to get diy ratgdo working

Hardware
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I made my own board to use with ratgdo. I’m pretty sure I have the hardware correct. I’m getting messages like the following when I have it connected and loaded with the esphome version of ratgdo:

|18:22:40|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[145114] Discard incomplete packet: [38 ...]|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|18:22:41|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[145373] Discard incomplete packet: [3A ...]|
|18:22:41|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[145641] Discard incomplete packet: [39 ...]|
|18:22:41|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[145899] Discard incomplete packet: [38 ...]|
|18:22:41|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[146167] Discard incomplete packet: [3A ...]|
|18:22:42|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[146426] Discard incomplete packet: [39 ...]|
|18:22:42|[W]|[ratgdo_secplus1:262]|[146678] Discard incomplete packet: [38 ...]|

My garage door opener is an older model Craftsman with a red learn button and 3 screw terminals where you wrap the wires around the screws (vs the terminal block type of connections). From what I’ve read it sounds like it should be using security plus v1.

I can’t use the mqtt version of ratgdo because my board pins don’t match what it is built for.

Any idea what the incomplete packet messages mean?

Thanks!

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Don’t know if you made any headway with this. I was in the same situation with same output and couldn’t figure why. I have the 8500w which is a sec 1 gdo. In the end I installed sec plus 2 because I have had enough and strangely it worked.

I have the official ratgdo. I originally installed in Jan this year. I have total of 3. The first one I could swear they had a comment to use sec 2 for 8500w and it worked. I installed the second one didn’t think much of it using sec 2 version and it didn’t work. I thought I had a brain fart and chose sec 1 and it worked for the remaining 2 gdos. I install the firmware using ratgdo site.

Yesterday, I was trying bring them into the esphome addon dashboard (create a bin from eaphome addon and do ota install in the web interface). In my config I use whatever they suggest using sec 1 version. It didn’t work. I reflash using the ratgdo site with sec 1 and it still did not work. I already forgot about the sec 2 incident and again though I would give it a last ditch effort and again it worked with sec 2.

I am not sure if they just made a mistake with the firmware or what but maybe give that a try.