Zoos ZEN17 Relay Garage Door Opener with two binary sensors

Configuration
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I am new to Home Assistant (previously used HomeSeer). I have a ZEN17 relay that I’m trying to use to as a garage door opener. I can toggle it without issue and have it configured for a momentary contact. How would a card be set up for this through the configuration.yml?

Switch: switch.garage_door_1
Binary sensor 1 (closed when door fully open): binary.sensor.garage_door_1_open
Binary sensor 2 (closed when door is fully closed): binary.sensor.garage_door_1_closed

When sensor 1 goes from closed to open, door is closing
When sensor 2 goes from closed to open, door is opening
When sensor 1 is closed, door is open
When sensor 2 is closed, door is closed

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I found plenty of threads on this topic for one sensor, but none for two.

2

I have the same device and love it.

You use a cover for what you are after:
Cover - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

3

How did you set up your cover? I have not found one that does quite what I am looking for

4

Put this into your configuration.yaml file (updating the entity names for your instance):

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        device_class: garage
        friendly_name: "Garage Door"
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.universal_relay_window_door_is_open','on') %}
            Open
          {% else %}
            Closed
          {% endif %}
        open_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          data:
            entity_id: switch.universal_relay_1
        close_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          data:
            entity_id: switch.universal_relay_1
        stop_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          data:
            entity_id: switch.universal_relay_1
        icon_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.universal_relay_window_door_is_open','on') %}
            mdi:garage-open
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage
          {% endif %}
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Thanks for sharing your template. For folks seeing this thread in the future, below is the template I landed on as of May’24. I’m using relay 1 on the ZEN17, and a ZSE43 tilt sensor for open/close state detection.

My ZEN17 is configured as below:

  • Relay 1 wired as NC for normally closed operation. I want the circuit to be always closed so I still get the usability of the momentary switch that came with my garage door opener. It has a button to turn on the light which I use regularly. Needs to be powered (closed circuit) to work. soon, I’ll install NC magnetic reed switches as redundant close/open detection.
  • parameters 2 and 3: 11 “On/Off report (Dry contact switch/sensor)”
  • parameter 7: Relay 1 auto turn-on timer set to 1 second
  • with this configuration, the relay is on by default in my UI, and when turned off, the ZEN17 turns it back on in 1 second.

configuration.yaml:

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        unique_id: test_cover
        device_class: garage
        friendly_name: "Garage Door"
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state( 'binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open' ,'on') %}
            Open
          {% else %}
            Closed
          {% endif %}
        open_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_universal_relay_1
        close_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_universal_relay_1
        stop_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_universal_relay_1
        icon_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open','on') %}
            mdi:garage-open-variant
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage-variant
          {% endif %}
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Once I add this to my configuration.yaml, how do I make use of it? My old garage door controller code from a couple years ago broke when I upgraded HA so I’m looking for some new code. Not sure how to make use of this. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! TY!

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Thank you for this code been looking how to use my zen16 for a while and this was it! i got this all set up and noticed that even when its closed if i tell alexa to close it, it opens it. bypassing the 4 digit code used to open it with voice. is there a way to prevent this? or did i just do it all wrong?

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I don’t think you did anything wrong. I don’t use alexa to control my garage door so I never noticed that bug, but it’s a bug. I only use the UI to control my garage. The UI greys out the close button if the garage is already closed.

The template is merely representing a relay + sensor as a cover. commands ‘open’, ‘close’, ‘stop’ are all converted to ‘turn_off’ under the hood.

I’m sure this is fixable in a number of different ways… just not sure how off the top of my head or which is the most elegant.

I did some back and forth with ChatGPT and it suggested adding conditions to the open_cover and close_cover target entity IDs. This way, Home assistant still sends the switch.turn_off service, but if the garage door is already in the desired state, it sends it to an entity_id that doesn’t exist, so nothing happens. That’s what we want.
I haven’t tested this yet in my home, can you try and post back if it works/doesn’t work?

Link to ChatGPT chat:

Revised configuration.yaml:

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        unique_id: test_cover
        device_class: garage
        friendly_name: "Garage Door"
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state( 'binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open' ,'on') %}
            Open
          {% else %}
            Closed
          {% endif %}
        open_cover:
          action: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: >-
              {% if not is_state('binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open', 'on') %}
                switch.garage_universal_relay_1
              {% else %}
                none
              {% endif %}
        close_cover:
          action: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: >-
              {% if is_state('binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open', 'on') %}
                switch.garage_universal_relay_1
              {% else %}
                none
              {% endif %}
        stop_cover:
          action: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_universal_relay_1
        icon_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.garage_tilt_is_open','on') %}
            mdi:garage-open-variant
          {% else %}
            mdi:garage-variant
          {% endif %}
  • edited to replace ‘service’ with ‘action’ to comply with the new standards effective a few months ago

Cheers!

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Thank you so much this has been racking my brain for days! it does work with voice assistant and within automations. I need to start using chatgpt for sure. thank you again.

my next quest is using a shelly plus uni to read the differences in voltage that is put out by the obstruction sensors and send a notification that the door didnt go down. should be easy enough. waiting on the uni to get here on monday.

thank you again.

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Be careful with this. It was trained on old HA info and may not even get you close to a real answer in many situations as shown by @2carlos needing to change service to action.

It can get much worse than that as time goes on.

You can refer to this recent thread for a discussion on this.
Prompts used when asking AI to code yaml for you? - Configuration - Home Assistant Community