I would reverse the logic with magnetic switch - now your doors only counts as open when it is 100% open, but if it gets opened in 99% you would see it as closed, which is bad
Agreed, I would set the reed switch up so that I get an open indication as soon as the door leaves the 100% closed position - anything but fully closed is unsecured
Basically - the logic is knowing if the door is NOT FULLY CLOSED... otherwise it's OPEN - and any amount of "open" is not secure! Last year I used DrZzs solution with a Sonoff SV. But I attached the stationary reed switch to the main rail at the end (near the door), and the magnet onto the moving drive arm bracket. As the door fully closes, the magnet activates the reed switch. As soon as the door moves any amount upward from closed, the magnet moves, changing the reed switch... telling me the door is NOT closed.
The read switch location there means if the door is partially open, the read switch will show as "closed". A better location would be placed at the other end of the chain so it will only shows "closed" when the door is completely closed. A partially open would consider as "open". Another issue is what if your garage door opener is a screw type?
a better place woud be to put the reed at the top of the frame and the magnet on the door (or for safety: reed far from door frame ex: on ceiling, and magnet on an suport/adapter) Because the chain posicion may change if you unlock and open it manually.
Nice video! Personally, though, I would mount the reed as a feedback for door confirmed closed ("ON" at safe position, i.e. closed). Knowing doors are closed are more important than confirmed fully open, imo.
@@mr.bianchirider8126 Me too :) At each door inside the house I have control-boxes with a D1Mini, a couple of buttons and a red (open) and a green (closed) led for each garage-door. When doors are in 'transit' both leds lights up in turn (best way I can explain it with my somewhat limited English vocabulary). I'm going to borrow your 'door-stuck' alarm, btw. Think I'll even include a 'feedback-fault' (both switches closed at the same time).
Mr. BianchiRider all these people with their fancy “made in the last ten years” garage door openers don’t know how to account for failure. I used a Samsung multisensor and read the orientation readings, with anything shy of shut-vertical being unsecured.
I had a two door unicorn system that broke down, and I had to get an additional opener of recent make. Been trying to figure out how to synchronize everything to work with one set of openers. Seems like I could set up a reed switch at the bottom of the modern door that triggers a button press on the other opener.
I did this in about 5 minutes with a sonoff 4ch when I moved in. Didn’t bother with a sensor since the garage camera was fine. I’ll rework it some day. The benefit of the sonoff was the RF fob.
I studied this for a while before attempting it. Worked a treat. My garage door opener has a feature that it can power additional low power devices (lights et al). I used this for powering the shelly itself, and worked great. No need to mess with the power adapter. Definitely took some doing to wrap my head around this application, but glad I did. Good work.
Thanks Rob. I liked the graphic pop ups and compact format of the video. Whilst I've been subscribed to your channel for a couple of years I still remain (and probably always will) a complete beginner - this step by step guide is gold dust!
Love your videos. One thing to note on this installation. Putting the reed switch/magnet on the chain will not identify if the garage door is open. Instead, it will identify if the garage door opener chain is in the up or down position. The difference being if you pull the cord to disconnect the garage door opener from the door and open the door manually, having the switch/magent monitoring the chain will not trigger a change in the app (i.e. it will not tell you the garage door is open. Put magnet and switch on the garage door / housing to monitor the garage door and not the opener.
In addition to this, it’s also better to have the switch trigger in the fully closed position versus the fully open position. That way you know the door is actually closed and not in a halfway position.
@@TheHookUp Rob, can you please do a follow up video on how to add and implemented it in Home Assistant :-). With animated icons of the garage doors :-) I will be very thankful for that !!! For more info on what exactly ;-) I wanted and hoped to see how he implemented this shelly in HA like a Cover / Garage Door shutter with the animated icons for opening and closing. And how to program it or set it up for the use with the reed switches in HA
The addition of the reed switch to know the door status is interesting option but because I only intend to use this wireless app/device within sight of my garage for me there is no need for a reed switch but thanks for letting me know some of the options out there.
I know this has been up for a few years, hopefully the recent Chamberlin controversy has sent more traffic your way. I have an older Genie garage door opener, so this video was perfect for helping me automate it. Thanks for the great step-by-step walkthrough on how to accomplish this! Got the whole thing set up for ~$20.
Great video. Serendipity! This was the first project I tried about 5years ago, and recently found you channel to see what was new in the space. First try I wound up with a breadboard mess from mysensors, hopefully there are easier options today!
Great video as usual. This is much better than my cloud myq garage hub which I got when I lost my garage keys. The best part is you can force the garage to close down even if door’s native sensor doesn’t let you (due to bad calibration, dust or locking down a thief;) ). I would add a sensor on garage door itself for complete open/close status. I have been waiting for your sprinkler System video...need to upgrade my dumb sprinkler system.
Can this be done with tasmota? If your door is half open your app thinks its closed.. Also I'd be putting the reed switch closed when the door is closed.. just incase your door is half open..
Perfect timing! I just installed the shelly last week hadn't decided on a reed switch yet. Also how you gonna show us this and not show us a cool way to put it into home assistant!? Either way great video thank you. Any advice for getting home assistant to also show the reed switch? Maybe a good animation of the garage going up or door maybe a tilt sensor or something.
Thanks for this. I just completed my very first DIY Smart Home Project (twice, as I have two garage doors). I like the Shelly app, but I also integrated it into Smart Things for good measure.
Great video. Perfect video to help put someone get it done. Make sure you apply the software updates when prompted. The indicator light was not working for me. But then when I updated the software it all worked perfectly.
Thank you very much. This video was really detailed and easy to follow. Saved me many hours. Minutes later I have it all set up on my Home Assistant Lovelace and Google Assistant.
I would love to see an update on node-red and this solution as means for an easy step into learning node-red. Such as; sending an alert if door is open and it's late at night AND no activity in the garage.
Thank you very much from Colombia, this video helped me automate a gate and the idea of the magnetic switch to detect if it is open or closed is great👍. Thanks to other videos on this channel I have decided to experiment with Home Assistant and I managed to add the button to open the gate, although I can only see the color of the icon change while the app button is active (the equivalent of the blue circle that is activated for 1 second in Shelly Cloud app) but I would like to be able to see the status of the magnetic switch in Home Assistant to know if the gate is closed or open, and maybe change the icon to show open/close door. This can be the subject of another video or an article on your blog. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks again.🙏
Hi, Perhaps a silly question but my garage door opener can supply 24V DC and I wonder if I can use these connectors instead of separate 12V power supply? Of course with jumper set to 24-60V DC position. Thanks for any advice in this regard.
This video just got some new exposure from a Home Assistant Facebook page. Important to reiterate a comment from a couple of years ago: certain garage door openers (Chamberlain MyQ is one) don't use simple contact closure. You can't just connect the two pins at the opener to cause it to open or close the door. You can get a MyQ remote and solder wires to its switch, or you can do the same with its wired control, but it won't work to just have the Shelly connect ("short") the pins on the opener.
Hey Rob, thank you for the great tutorial - I got this setup and integrated into HA this afternoon in no time. Also, really enjoy your content and appreciate the amount of effort you put in... Keep it coming!
Great Video! There is one thing I think could be added just for some important info since I unfortunately discovered it. Newer Chamberlin/Liftmaster garage doors will not work with this because of proprietary signal inputs (Security 2.0+). Really sucks and this project will not work unless there is some remote button soldering involved.
This is a great point and I've experienced this 100% as well. Even ready made products like Nexx require an adapter which is basically a wireless opener you can learn to your garage door opener and then trigger from the Nexx relay.
Same issue. I tried to go down the Shelly route to get the Security 2.0+ door out of the cloud and manage it via MQTT locally over Home Assistant. Does work over the "MyQ" integration through Home Assistant.....just via Liftmaster's Cloud.
I bought a pack of generic garage door openers on Amazon for 12 bucks. Then I soldered some wires to the two sides of the "button" and use that open and close the door.
I’m having the same problem I set the timer to the time it takes to open the door and it showed but it doesn’t show if you use the regular garage button which is the main reason I started the project to see if the door is open after I left
Great video as always. The only wrinkle I see is that many new garage door opener’s such as those from Chamberlain that have digital codes cannot be controlled in this manner. I found that I had to open up the wall switch and solder two small wires across the contacts of the button so that a contact closure could trigger the digital signal to the garage door. This way what you presented still works but it just makes it somewhat more difficult because of disassembly and soldering inside the physical wall switch. If I am missing something please let me know but this is what I found I had to do. a contact closure at the motorhead would not control the door when using certain chamberlain openers.
I was going to comment for this exact reason. Most new openers just provide power to the wall controller and its RF back to the opener to allow security. Garadget makes a device called the Security+ 2.0 Dry Contact Adapter which makes it easy for DIY'rs that are not comfortable opening up their wall controller.
@@TheHookUp chamberlain is pushing their MyQ line which is very powerful but adds at least $100 to the cost of automating your door. As I said, I was able to do minor surgery to bypass the problem but many are reluctant to do so.
If you have a newer Chamberlain or Liftmaster garage door opener with a yellow learn button, You cannot jumper the screw terminals on the back of the opener to open/close the door. These openers use the Security+ 2.0 protocol. The easiest way around it, is to buy a second wall switch, like the 883LMW and use the shelly relay to jumper the pushbutton on the wall switch.
You can make this work with Chamberlain/LiftMaster by adding an interface module that takes the relay output from the Shelly and converts it to the digital data that the opener expects to see on the wires that run to the wall switch. www.creativeaccesssolutions.com/Universal-Security-20%E2%84%A2-Interface-Module_p_13.html
Great tutorial. Getting the parts and making a temporary setup were the easy bits. Making it look good in the end and be sure it works before everything was nicely moved out of sight was a bit harder. Nevertheless very happy with the end result.
Great video! Never commented before, but I just had to. This is the kind of thing I’ve been looking at for my first smart home project. I currently depend on different clouds for different devices. For example, I currently have the MyQ gateway for the garage door, Nest thermostat, Honeywell TC 2.0 for my alarm, etc. I’d like to begin freeing myself from someone else’s cloud and keep it all in-house. So, although I have Home Assistant, I have very easy integrations with someone else’s clouds. Now I can remove MyQ, add a Shelly relay and then figure out how to take myself out of an outside cloud and run the garage.
Be careful, some of the other commenters said this doesn't work with the MyQ garage doors. If you have the hub you might be ok, but the built in ones might have issues with this method. They do make a homekit hub that is supposed to remove cloud dependencies which I may end up using as the MyQ integration keeps breaking because of changes they make to the user agents on their side.
The Hook Up Rob, so I gathered some valor and worked on this project last night. The Shelly is as advertised, a great relay. Your instructions are “me” proof (stupid proof), the products you recommended in the description were great (and inexpensive), I was able to set it all up before connecting it to the garage door. Today I hooked it up to the garage door, pressed the button on the app, and VOILA!! The lights flickered, over, and over, after every button press in the app. The garage door didn’t even make an attempt to open or close. It’s official, the LiftMaster Security + 2.0 motors, with or without MyQ hub, absolutely don’t work with this relay...of course my integration was never going to be easy...LOL Now I need to figure out this whole “other button” and “soldering” thing...if anyone can push me the right way, I’ll do some research.
Brian Roy I figured I would try. Even if it’s not direct and needs the hub, it doesn’t work. My door opener says Security + 2.0. That’s a big no-no, but I tried anyway. Lights flickered, so I know that the relay did it’s thing...
I mistakenly bought 20 AWG stranded copper wire to do this project -- ugh. It's a bit thin and the stranded stuff made it harder to use. It didn't work on try one but after redoing my connections and AND making sure the wires weren't stripped and connected in a way that could possibly lead to them touching each other, it worked.
Have you noticed issues with the shelly1 app lately? Was trying to put a shelly1 on garage opener in my new house. Half the time I couldent connect to the app, other half of the time I could but couldent see any config. Then when I could see config it would tell me I needed a firmware update, I did it, but it never updated the firmware. Frustrating... And then even when I couldent connect to the shelly1 app, or I could and it said my devices were offline, I could still control them through the HA android app!! So they werent offline!
8:08 this solution makes it seem you need a server connection for it to work unless you utilize hubitat / smart thing hubs. what OTHER solution can I hope to look forward to to make it work LOCALLY when I have no internet for several minutes at a time ? Could the Matter protocol allow this local feature this down the line?
I did this today and your instructions were right on the money! My wife is skeptical as to the usefulness, but now I can program the door to always close at sunset, etc. I had to shave down the reed switch and magnet to get it to fit, but no biggie. The biggest trouble is getting the Shelly to communicate, but I eventually got past that hurdle. Thanks for a great little improvement to our 20 year old garage door opener. Is there a way to make a Shelly scene, or an Alexa routine to close the garage door at sunset?
Thanks. I used a shelly Plus and end up with the following entities: - switch.overheaddoor (The shelley Relay contacts with the 1 second on delay) - binary_sensor.overheaddoor_input (Magnetic switch) feedback contact It all works, but I am struggling on how this could show up in home assistant as a cover with Icons representing a "Cover" and showing open and closed status?
ive seen wifi garage door opens that show the state of the garage door for around $15 on ebay and aliexpress. they have a magnetic sensor and use ewelink or tuya smartlife. duno if they are tasmota compatible.
I stumbled across this video more by mistake than anything else but having seen it....the the little clogs in my head went into overdrive. Now no thanks to you, I have to do this 😊 Thank you for a clear and concisely made video that is a great help in both understanding the concepts and the end results of interlinked automation.
I do not see Application Settings > Input State. I only see Load Type, Pin Lock, and Exclude from Event Log on the Application Settings page. Is it possible this feature has been removed from the app? Moved somewhere else? Also, thanks for the videos on the Shelly. I have an antique wall clock which I wired so that the lights inside could be off while the clock stayed on, but rarely every got up to turn the lights on. Now with a Shelly 2.5 in there I can control it much easier. :-)
Just did the project. I had to go into the Shelly 1 and update the firmware. A few seconds later, all the options magically appeared. This was a little frustrating because the Shelly Cloud app said that it updated the switches, but guess it didn't 🤷
Hi Robert, I have just installed Shelly 1 on my garage opener in the way you did but without read switch since I was planning to use Shelly Door/Window 2 to monitor gate state and use it in some HA automation (e.g. send notification if garage is open after certain hour). Anyway, Shelly seems to work fine but I'm a bit confused with one specific setting under 'BUTTON TYPE'. In your video at 6:07 it shows button type 'Toggle switch' but I wonder why not to use 'Momentary' instead, which should simulate garage push-button - what am I missing here? :)
Shelly has made a major update to their app. At 6:35 we see how to monitor the door position via the "Input state display". Unfortunately, with the new app update you can barely make out the indicator on the display icon. It's very hard to see. Would there be another way to tell if the door is open?
Can u make easy tutorial about normal switches like turning normal house light in smart lights which can be turned on or of by phone app or apple home kit , it is hard because i dont know how to use relays for 240 v ac
Thank you for making this video, very helpful! I have mine setup and working on my Chamberlain 41AC075-2A garage door opener. The Shelly is working fine, however whenever I trigger the Shelly, my wall mounted garage door opener button goes out/resets and comes back on a few seconds later. My LiftMaster wall mounted garage door opener button has a small display which shows the time and temperature. Has anyone else had this problem?
I am struggling to get the shelly 1 to display the reed switch status in Home Assistant. I have 3 entities that the shelly device is providing that pertain to what I need (other than entities that only control the shelly operation like firmeware, uptime, etc): Those are the event, switch, and button. The Event is only fired once when the magnet gets close to the reed switch in the NC position. If I change to the NO position the opposite is true. Switch is the "power" button and fires the door to open or close. Button is the device reboot. With the event only being a one-time event and not a "position" I am not able to know if the door is open or closed and would only know when it opens but since it only fires once, I would only know the instant it is open and wouldn't know if it remains open and wouldn't know when it closes as the reed switch doesn't fire an event when the circuit is broken. Any thoughts? Is there a setting I need to enable?
just wondering, i use this setup in Home Assistant, but i want also to see on my dashboard in HA if the garage door is closed by the Reed sensor. Any idea how to make this visable in HA ? instead of watching the icon in the shelly app ?
My door wouldn't open when bridging the terminals (2:30). I even tried the screw terminals at the wall unit. Any ideas why? I have another unit (different model) and it worked fine.
@@TheHookUp It's a LiftMaster 1D 7675. The strange thing is it has the MyQ label but no wifi included. That requires the MyQ bridge but i'd rather learn something and build one of my own. I do have one of those keypads outside.
@@145tak Get yourself a broadlink - it will learn the garage RF remote signal and you can automate it through the broadlink app / alexa etc. Then a cheap open/close door sensor will show you if the door is open or closed :)
Love this idea for automating my garage door. I just order the items needed. One thing I am curious about. I assume adding this to my Alexa app is possible however I wonder how to make the reed switch status on Alexa? Can I ask Alexa to give me the status?
keep in mind : Yellow Learn Button Openers - Security+ 2.0 Garage Door Openers Security+ 2.0 Garage Door Openers use a 2-way encrypted serial communication, which is why the system does not work when touching the wires together.
So funny enough, I bought the myQ system way back when I started smarthoming and it consistently lets me down. Something about the RF transmitter just never worked right, I don't know why they didn't give you relay contacts. Looking at this as a replacement.
OK now the serious questions. What about the garage door opener light? I know that it comes on/off as the door opens/closes and there is a switch on the garage door wall button. I would like to also control that through the hub. So that I can use a motion sensor in the garage to turn on when someone walks in without opening the garage. My current garage door button has a motion sensor for this, but it'd crappy and doesn't always register the motion. If I use a Shelly1 should I connect it to the wall mounted switch or the opener? Thx
How to connect to my new Hubitat v7 to Shelly1? I have followed your very detailed instructions and have configured shelly to the cloud and everything is working via shelly cloud. I am new to Home automation.
I tried this on my garage motor Krispol sparcus and shelly one plus. But now my garage door open/close stopped working tried remote + manual click on motor. Power is on and the motor has light. I can go to program mode and open and close the gate with arrows to set the max and min settings. So something in circuit board damaged?
Mounting the reed switch this way means that somebody could break into your garage, open the door (just not fully) and you would never know the garage door has been opened. Mount wired part of the reed switch on the rail to detect fully closed position. All it takes is a few extra feet of doorbell wire.
Hola! saludos desde España. Podrias explicarme paso a paso como configurar una escenna y recibir notificaciones de puerta abierta. Por mas que lo intento no lo he conseguido. Gracias excelente video
I used a Shelly1 Mini Gen 3 for this and so 12V DC input was not an option. How should the reed switch be incorporated since in my case, following these instructions, would have one wire connected to the live 120 AC wire?
Amazing video!!! Installation super easy. However, I encountered an issue that I haven't been able to figured out. I set up the notifications when the door opens but the notifications only works if I'm using the shelly app. I'm trying to make it work without the shelly app. For me to receive notifications, I have to click the on/off switch in the shelly app but if I press the garage door opener button, I won't receive any notifications. Can someone point me in the right direction or have any pointers? TIA
Hi, I am trying to set up my Shelly 1 to control my garage door. I've gone through the set up but just get "pending connection" on my iphone 8, Ive tried a second shell1 and when I get to the stage to allow to join the wifi it eventually comes up with pending connection! can you help please? Thanks.
Could we get some guidance on getting this system into Home Assistant? I'm not very familiar with MQTT and would appreciate the help. Great video though either way!
Amazing video! thanks!! a question.. I saw another videos when you connect the "reed switch" in another part of the shelly (in the front.. where are the gpio I think) ... is the same functionality?
I may have to do something like this next week. Have you considered combining this with the lock. Liftmaster 841LM is egregiously expensive, Meross are great but they do not communicate with OpenHab or HomeAssistant. Current, MyQ are not reliable, MyQ wireless door sensor is weak tho they added free integration with Google. I would rather have home automation controller and sonoff. Thinking that 4ch can handle both doors. Or add garage door locks. Great project. Thank you.
Do you have any advice for hooking this up to a newer craftsman opener? Connecting the two wires that connect the wired opener to the unit being connected don't cause the opener to fire. Maybe there is some kind of communication between the button and the unit? Thanks for the advice!
Yeah, it appears that these companies are doing everything they can to prevent 3rd party integrations in their newer openers. I'm not familiar with the craftsman, but the fix I've seen for others is to just hook your shelly up to the actual garage door remote.
Hi. I found this very useful and am up to the point where i need to connect my shelly to the gate switch board. I just don’t know where. Do you have an idea? It is an ATA SGO-1
Will Alexa understand "open the garage door" or "Turn on the garage door"? What about "Close the garage door" or "Turn Off [or On] the garage door"? Since it is a switch, might be latter. Can it be changed with the Shelly Cloud only?
I have the Shelly at 230v, so that it detects the open door that I put a normally open or closed magnet, does the magnet have to be 230v? Or does not it matter. thanks.
I have just received a new Shelly 1 and with a normally closed Read Switch. In the Shelly app there is a green and red bar. Unfortunately, when the magnet closes the circuit the light shows Green. When the magnet breaks away the light in the app then goes RED. Seems backwards as I would expect a closed garage door should be good/Green light on the app. With all of this now said, I now believe the normally open read switch would instead be the right way to go.........Thoughts anyone
To clarify, I have an older screw drive whereas the moving parts start at the door opening and end up at the motor. Seem that running wire to the other end and mounting the magnets there will accomplish the same thing without buying another read switch. Learning is the name of this game :)
Hey y'all. Loving this project. I am able to open the doors from the Shelly app as well as through the HA integration. My only issue right now is the sensor. For some reason it is not changing status consistently. Also, should the status change be immediate? I would think so. magnet is close enough to the sensor, I think😉! Thoughts?
Thanks for the how to! Worked great. Do you know of a way to change the integration with Alexa to have the command as "Open/Close" instead of "On/Off"? Using the Shelly one, it identifies as a switch, and so in Alexa you need to say "Alexa, turn the garage door on"
How did you find the features like auto timer and toggle in the shelly app? The shelly app seems to work completely different on my phone than what's shown on the app.
I would reverse the logic with magnetic switch - now your doors only counts as open when it is 100% open, but if it gets opened in 99% you would see it as closed, which is bad
Agreed, I would set the reed switch up so that I get an open indication as soon as the door leaves the 100% closed position - anything but fully closed is unsecured
Basically - the logic is knowing if the door is NOT FULLY CLOSED... otherwise it's OPEN - and any amount of "open" is not secure! Last year I used DrZzs solution with a Sonoff SV. But I attached the stationary reed switch to the main rail at the end (near the door), and the magnet onto the moving drive arm bracket. As the door fully closes, the magnet activates the reed switch. As soon as the door moves any amount upward from closed, the magnet moves, changing the reed switch... telling me the door is NOT closed.
So how is this done? Do you just move this to the other end of the rail?
What does this mean? Could you post a video link or webpage?@@nortonnewmann3711
The read switch location there means if the door is partially open, the read switch will show as "closed". A better location would be placed at the other end of the chain so it will only shows "closed" when the door is completely closed. A partially open would consider as "open".
Another issue is what if your garage door opener is a screw type?
a better place woud be to put the reed at the top of the frame and the magnet on the door (or for safety: reed far from door frame ex: on ceiling, and magnet on an suport/adapter)
Because the chain posicion may change if you unlock and open it manually.
@@ghosterPT would you mind doing a hand drawing of what you are suggesting since it is hard for me to follow your instructions
@@psu8782 how do I send you a picture?
@@ghosterPT psu9999@hotmail.com
@@psu8782 done
Nice video!
Personally, though, I would mount the reed as a feedback for door confirmed closed ("ON" at safe position, i.e. closed).
Knowing doors are closed are more important than confirmed fully open, imo.
I use two reed switches, one for open and the other for closed. If neither is met within 15 seconds I get an alarm (door stuck).
@@mr.bianchirider8126 Me too :) At each door inside the house I have control-boxes with a D1Mini, a couple of buttons and a red (open) and a green (closed) led for each garage-door. When doors are in 'transit' both leds lights up in turn (best way I can explain it with my somewhat limited English vocabulary).
I'm going to borrow your 'door-stuck' alarm, btw. Think I'll even include a 'feedback-fault' (both switches closed at the same time).
Mr. BianchiRider all these people with their fancy “made in the last ten years” garage door openers don’t know how to account for failure.
I used a Samsung multisensor and read the orientation readings, with anything shy of shut-vertical being unsecured.
I had a two door unicorn system that broke down, and I had to get an additional opener of recent make. Been trying to figure out how to synchronize everything to work with one set of openers. Seems like I could set up a reed switch at the bottom of the modern door that triggers a button press on the other opener.
Olly Alme I also alarm if the garage door is open past sundown or the outdoor temperature is below freezing.
I did this in about 5 minutes with a sonoff 4ch when I moved in. Didn’t bother with a sensor since the garage camera was fine. I’ll rework it some day. The benefit of the sonoff was the RF fob.
I studied this for a while before attempting it. Worked a treat. My garage door opener has a feature that it can power additional low power devices (lights et al). I used this for powering the shelly itself, and worked great. No need to mess with the power adapter. Definitely took some doing to wrap my head around this application, but glad I did. Good work.
Thanks Rob. I liked the graphic pop ups and compact format of the video. Whilst I've been subscribed to your channel for a couple of years I still remain (and probably always will) a complete beginner - this step by step guide is gold dust!
Love your videos. One thing to note on this installation. Putting the reed switch/magnet on the chain will not identify if the garage door is open. Instead, it will identify if the garage door opener chain is in the up or down position. The difference being if you pull the cord to disconnect the garage door opener from the door and open the door manually, having the switch/magent monitoring the chain will not trigger a change in the app (i.e. it will not tell you the garage door is open. Put magnet and switch on the garage door / housing to monitor the garage door and not the opener.
A fair observation.
Yeah, the emergency release is a great point since that is the biggest vulnerability to unauthorized entry through the garage.
In addition to this, it’s also better to have the switch trigger in the fully closed position versus the fully open position. That way you know the door is actually closed and not in a halfway position.
@@TheHookUp Rob, can you please do a follow up video on how to add and implemented it in Home Assistant :-).
With animated icons of the garage doors :-)
I will be very thankful for that !!!
For more info on what exactly ;-)
I wanted and hoped to see how he implemented this shelly in HA like a Cover / Garage Door shutter with the animated icons for opening and closing.
And how to program it or set it up for the use with the reed switches in HA
Any chance of a v2.0 video with this feedback?
The addition of the reed switch to know the door status is interesting option but because I only intend to use this wireless app/device within sight of my garage for me there is no need for a reed switch but thanks for letting me know some of the options out there.
I know this has been up for a few years, hopefully the recent Chamberlin controversy has sent more traffic your way. I have an older Genie garage door opener, so this video was perfect for helping me automate it. Thanks for the great step-by-step walkthrough on how to accomplish this! Got the whole thing set up for ~$20.
Rob went all 90s VH1 on us!
Thanks Rob. I never thought of using the SW for a sensor 👌🍻
Nice and simple video! The idea of attaching a reed switch to the garage chain is pretty brilliant, I have to say :)
Great video. Serendipity! This was the first project I tried about 5years ago, and recently found you channel to see what was new in the space. First try I wound up with a breadboard mess from mysensors, hopefully there are easier options today!
I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Great video as usual. This is much better than my cloud myq garage hub which I got when I lost my garage keys. The best part is you can force the garage to close down even if door’s native sensor doesn’t let you (due to bad calibration, dust or locking down a thief;) ). I would add a sensor on garage door itself for complete open/close status.
I have been waiting for your sprinkler System video...need to upgrade my dumb sprinkler system.
I don't know why I'm watching this, I don't have a garage.
But now you want to have a garage:D
Can this be done with tasmota?
If your door is half open your app thinks its closed..
Also I'd be putting the reed switch closed when the door is closed.. just incase your door is half open..
I didn't have a home. I live in a car
Perfect timing! I just installed the shelly last week hadn't decided on a reed switch yet. Also how you gonna show us this and not show us a cool way to put it into home assistant!? Either way great video thank you. Any advice for getting home assistant to also show the reed switch? Maybe a good animation of the garage going up or door maybe a tilt sensor or something.
When you connect the Reed sensor can you make the app alert you when the door is open for a period of time?
Thanks for this. I just completed my very first DIY Smart Home Project (twice, as I have two garage doors). I like the Shelly app, but I also integrated it into Smart Things for good measure.
Awesome! You might think I’m just blowing smoke, but comments like this make me really happy.
Great video. Perfect video to help put someone get it done. Make sure you apply the software updates when prompted. The indicator light was not working for me. But then when I updated the software it all worked perfectly.
Thank you very much. This video was really detailed and easy to follow. Saved me many hours. Minutes later I have it all set up on my Home Assistant Lovelace and Google Assistant.
Thanks a lot for this video! As a new first home owner, this is super practical.
I would love to see an update on node-red and this solution as means for an easy step into learning node-red. Such as; sending an alert if door is open and it's late at night AND no activity in the garage.
Great simple video. It opens up a lot of options and other ideas in a simple budget. Thank you.
Can the information about the state of the switch be passed to Alexa?
Thank you very much from Colombia, this video helped me automate a gate and the idea of the magnetic switch to detect if it is open or closed is great👍. Thanks to other videos on this channel I have decided to experiment with Home Assistant and I managed to add the button to open the gate, although I can only see the color of the icon change while the app button is active (the equivalent of the blue circle that is activated for 1 second in Shelly Cloud app) but I would like to be able to see the status of the magnetic switch in Home Assistant to know if the gate is closed or open, and maybe change the icon to show open/close door. This can be the subject of another video or an article on your blog.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks again.🙏
Works great with my gate (motor Hormann Lineamatic). Thanks!
Excellent explanation of a perfect DIY Home Automation project!
Hi,
Perhaps a silly question but my garage door opener can supply 24V DC and I wonder if I can use these connectors instead of separate 12V power supply? Of course with jumper set to 24-60V DC position.
Thanks for any advice in this regard.
This video just got some new exposure from a Home Assistant Facebook page. Important to reiterate a comment from a couple of years ago: certain garage door openers (Chamberlain MyQ is one) don't use simple contact closure. You can't just connect the two pins at the opener to cause it to open or close the door. You can get a MyQ remote and solder wires to its switch, or you can do the same with its wired control, but it won't work to just have the Shelly connect ("short") the pins on the opener.
Hey Rob, thank you for the great tutorial - I got this setup and integrated into HA this afternoon in no time. Also, really enjoy your content and appreciate the amount of effort you put in... Keep it coming!
Loved the video, @steve, were you able to have home assistant determine if the door is open or closed?
@@jbraunguy home assistant picked up the Shelly right away and has an input Entity that reports on the reed sensor.
@@StevenBritton Thank you that was what I was looking for. It is a binary_sensor input entity.
Another great video Rob. Like how you are trying to help draw in more beginners.
Great Video! There is one thing I think could be added just for some important info since I unfortunately discovered it. Newer Chamberlin/Liftmaster garage doors will not work with this because of proprietary signal inputs (Security 2.0+). Really sucks and this project will not work unless there is some remote button soldering involved.
This is a great point and I've experienced this 100% as well. Even ready made products like Nexx require an adapter which is basically a wireless opener you can learn to your garage door opener and then trigger from the Nexx relay.
Same issue. I tried to go down the Shelly route to get the Security 2.0+ door out of the cloud and manage it via MQTT locally over Home Assistant. Does work over the "MyQ" integration through Home Assistant.....just via Liftmaster's Cloud.
I bought a pack of generic garage door openers on Amazon for 12 bucks. Then I soldered some wires to the two sides of the "button" and use that open and close the door.
How would this not work? You basically are adding a new wall button except it's a wireless relay. No need to use the rolling code
@@karlknoedler8957 yeah that's pretty much what I did. Gave up and left it at the myq cloud
Got this worked, except my reed switch won't relay status to my shelly.
I’m having the same problem I set the timer to the time it takes to open the door and it showed but it doesn’t show if you use the regular garage button which is the main reason I started the project to see if the door is open after I left
Great video as always. The only wrinkle I see is that many new garage door opener’s such as those from Chamberlain that have digital codes cannot be controlled in this manner. I found that I had to open up the wall switch and solder two small wires across the contacts of the button so that a contact closure could trigger the digital signal to the garage door. This way what you presented still works but it just makes it somewhat more difficult because of disassembly and soldering inside the physical wall switch. If I am missing something please let me know but this is what I found I had to do. a contact closure at the motorhead would not control the door when using certain chamberlain openers.
I was going to comment for this exact reason. Most new openers just provide power to the wall controller and its RF back to the opener to allow security. Garadget makes a device called the Security+ 2.0 Dry Contact Adapter which makes it easy for DIY'rs that are not comfortable opening up their wall controller.
I wonder what the reasoning is for companies implementing an RF only solution. Trying to lock down smart solutions to only their own brand?
@@TheHookUp chamberlain is pushing their MyQ line which is very powerful but adds at least $100 to the cost of automating your door. As I said, I was able to do minor surgery to bypass the problem but many are reluctant to do so.
I did not know those Shelly devices could do 12v. I might have a use for that.
If you have a newer Chamberlain or Liftmaster garage door opener with a yellow learn button, You cannot jumper the screw terminals on the back of the opener to open/close the door. These openers use the Security+ 2.0 protocol. The easiest way around it, is to buy a second wall switch, like the 883LMW and use the shelly relay to jumper the pushbutton on the wall switch.
Not sure, but another option may be to use a spare remote and solder the shelly relay to that. Correct me if I am wrong
You can make this work with Chamberlain/LiftMaster by adding an interface module that takes the relay output from the Shelly and converts it to the digital data that the opener expects to see on the wires that run to the wall switch. www.creativeaccesssolutions.com/Universal-Security-20%E2%84%A2-Interface-Module_p_13.html
Great tutorial. Getting the parts and making a temporary setup were the easy bits. Making it look good in the end and be sure it works before everything was nicely moved out of sight was a bit harder. Nevertheless very happy with the end result.
Hey Rob, can't wait for your patio renovation phase 1 and 2 videos..... great work
Thank you, I did it by myself. Let's go smart home 🔥😶
Great video! Never commented before, but I just had to. This is the kind of thing I’ve been looking at for my first smart home project. I currently depend on different clouds for different devices. For example, I currently have the MyQ gateway for the garage door, Nest thermostat, Honeywell TC 2.0 for my alarm, etc. I’d like to begin freeing myself from someone else’s cloud and keep it all in-house. So, although I have Home Assistant, I have very easy integrations with someone else’s clouds. Now I can remove MyQ, add a Shelly relay and then figure out how to take myself out of an outside cloud and run the garage.
Perfect!
Be careful, some of the other commenters said this doesn't work with the MyQ garage doors. If you have the hub you might be ok, but the built in ones might have issues with this method. They do make a homekit hub that is supposed to remove cloud dependencies which I may end up using as the MyQ integration keeps breaking because of changes they make to the user agents on their side.
Hey, thanks for letting me know! I do have the hub. I’ll try it out and will report back.
The Hook Up Rob, so I gathered some valor and worked on this project last night. The Shelly is as advertised, a great relay. Your instructions are “me” proof (stupid proof), the products you recommended in the description were great (and inexpensive), I was able to set it all up before connecting it to the garage door. Today I hooked it up to the garage door, pressed the button on the app, and VOILA!! The lights flickered, over, and over, after every button press in the app. The garage door didn’t even make an attempt to open or close.
It’s official, the LiftMaster Security + 2.0 motors, with or without MyQ hub, absolutely don’t work with this relay...of course my integration was never going to be easy...LOL
Now I need to figure out this whole “other button” and “soldering” thing...if anyone can push me the right way, I’ll do some research.
Brian Roy I figured I would try. Even if it’s not direct and needs the hub, it doesn’t work. My door opener says Security + 2.0. That’s a big no-no, but I tried anyway. Lights flickered, so I know that the relay did it’s thing...
Is there a way to have the switch entity in HA? My shelly 1 only has the relay button in HA.
I really want this too. Actually being able to tell if the garage door is open or not is more important than being able to open og close it really :P
I always enjoy these videos. Don't stop making them
I mistakenly bought 20 AWG stranded copper wire to do this project -- ugh. It's a bit thin and the stranded stuff made it harder to use. It didn't work on try one but after redoing my connections and AND making sure the wires weren't stripped and connected in a way that could possibly lead to them touching each other, it worked.
You had me at Pop-Up Video. 🤣
Have you considered updating this video with the Shelly Pro Dual Cover?
Have you noticed issues with the shelly1 app lately? Was trying to put a shelly1 on garage opener in my new house. Half the time I couldent connect to the app, other half of the time I could but couldent see any config. Then when I could see config it would tell me I needed a firmware update, I did it, but it never updated the firmware. Frustrating...
And then even when I couldent connect to the shelly1 app, or I could and it said my devices were offline, I could still control them through the HA android app!! So they werent offline!
8:08 this solution makes it seem you need a server connection for it to work unless you utilize hubitat / smart thing hubs.
what OTHER solution can I hope to look forward to to make it work LOCALLY when I have no internet for several minutes at a time ?
Could the Matter protocol allow this local feature this down the line?
The hook up + shelly = perfect!
Any chance of a PCB tutorial in the future? I know its probably on the more advanced side of things, but I would be super interested to learn
I did this today and your instructions were right on the money! My wife is skeptical as to the usefulness, but now I can program the door to always close at sunset, etc. I had to shave down the reed switch and magnet to get it to fit, but no biggie. The biggest trouble is getting the Shelly to communicate, but I eventually got past that hurdle. Thanks for a great little improvement to our 20 year old garage door opener.
Is there a way to make a Shelly scene, or an Alexa routine to close the garage door at sunset?
Thanks.
I used a shelly Plus and end up with the following entities:
- switch.overheaddoor (The shelley Relay contacts with the 1 second on delay)
- binary_sensor.overheaddoor_input (Magnetic switch) feedback contact
It all works, but I am struggling on how this could show up in home assistant as a cover with Icons representing a "Cover" and showing open and closed status?
ive seen wifi garage door opens that show the state of the garage door for around $15 on ebay and aliexpress. they have a magnetic sensor and use ewelink or tuya smartlife. duno if they are tasmota compatible.
Was just looking through your channel for this video, excellent timing!
I stumbled across this video more by mistake than anything else but having seen it....the the little clogs in my head went into overdrive. Now no thanks to you, I have to do this 😊
Thank you for a clear and concisely made video that is a great help in both understanding the concepts and the end results of interlinked automation.
Anyway to get a notification when the door status changes within the app?
I do not see Application Settings > Input State. I only see Load Type, Pin Lock, and Exclude from Event Log on the Application Settings page. Is it possible this feature has been removed from the app? Moved somewhere else?
Also, thanks for the videos on the Shelly. I have an antique wall clock which I wired so that the lights inside could be off while the clock stayed on, but rarely every got up to turn the lights on. Now with a Shelly 2.5 in there I can control it much easier. :-)
I have the same issue - can’t find the “Input State” option.
@@jandoglee At least on iOS it appears to be back!
Just did the project. I had to go into the Shelly 1 and update the firmware. A few seconds later, all the options magically appeared. This was a little frustrating because the Shelly Cloud app said that it updated the switches, but guess it didn't 🤷
Hi Robert,
I have just installed Shelly 1 on my garage opener in the way you did but without read switch since I was planning to use Shelly Door/Window 2 to monitor gate state and use it in some HA automation (e.g. send notification if garage is open after certain hour). Anyway, Shelly seems to work fine but I'm a bit confused with one specific setting under 'BUTTON TYPE'. In your video at 6:07 it shows button type 'Toggle switch' but I wonder why not to use 'Momentary' instead, which should simulate garage push-button - what am I missing here? :)
Shelly has made a major update to their app. At 6:35 we see how to monitor the door position via the "Input state display". Unfortunately, with the new app update you can barely make out the indicator on the display icon. It's very hard to see.
Would there be another way to tell if the door is open?
Can u make easy tutorial about normal switches like turning normal house light in smart lights which can be turned on or of by phone app or apple home kit , it is hard because i dont know how to use relays for 240 v ac
ALWAYS extremely interesting information!! Thanks!
Thank you for making this video, very helpful! I have mine setup and working on my Chamberlain 41AC075-2A garage door opener. The Shelly is working fine, however whenever I trigger the Shelly, my wall mounted garage door opener button goes out/resets and comes back on a few seconds later. My LiftMaster wall mounted garage door opener button has a small display which shows the time and temperature. Has anyone else had this problem?
Last thing I'm trying to figure out is I need wire for this. Any links on exactly what I should buy?
I am struggling to get the shelly 1 to display the reed switch status in Home Assistant. I have 3 entities that the shelly device is providing that pertain to what I need (other than entities that only control the shelly operation like firmeware, uptime, etc): Those are the event, switch, and button. The Event is only fired once when the magnet gets close to the reed switch in the NC position. If I change to the NO position the opposite is true. Switch is the "power" button and fires the door to open or close. Button is the device reboot. With the event only being a one-time event and not a "position" I am not able to know if the door is open or closed and would only know when it opens but since it only fires once, I would only know the instant it is open and wouldn't know if it remains open and wouldn't know when it closes as the reed switch doesn't fire an event when the circuit is broken. Any thoughts? Is there a setting I need to enable?
just wondering, i use this setup in Home Assistant, but i want also to see on my dashboard in HA if the garage door is closed by the Reed sensor. Any idea how to make this visable in HA ? instead of watching the icon in the shelly app ?
My door wouldn't open when bridging the terminals (2:30). I even tried the screw terminals at the wall unit. Any ideas why?
I have another unit (different model) and it worked fine.
Some of the newer doors have ruined this for everyone. What make/model?
@@TheHookUp It's a LiftMaster 1D 7675. The strange thing is it has the MyQ label but no wifi included. That requires the MyQ bridge but i'd rather learn something and build one of my own. I do have one of those keypads outside.
@@145tak Yep, those one specifically can ONLY respond to an RF signal. Such a shame.
@@145tak Get yourself a broadlink - it will learn the garage RF remote signal and you can automate it through the broadlink app / alexa etc. Then a cheap open/close door sensor will show you if the door is open or closed :)
Anyway to be notified after an hour of the garage door being left open in the shelli app?
Love this idea for automating my garage door. I just order the items needed. One thing I am curious about. I assume adding this to my Alexa app is possible however I wonder how to make the reed switch status on Alexa? Can I ask Alexa to give me the status?
I am wondering the same thing.
keep in mind : Yellow Learn Button Openers - Security+ 2.0 Garage Door Openers
Security+ 2.0 Garage Door Openers use a 2-way encrypted serial communication, which is why the system does not work when touching the wires together.
Yeah, that is such an annoying thing they did, and feels like a blatant money grab. There were no security exploits associated with the wired openers.
Any Chance this could be tweeked for a Motorized Rolling Gate? And could the 12v p/s be supplied with a battery?
So funny enough, I bought the myQ system way back when I started smarthoming and it consistently lets me down. Something about the RF transmitter just never worked right, I don't know why they didn't give you relay contacts. Looking at this as a replacement.
OK now the serious questions. What about the garage door opener light? I know that it comes on/off as the door opens/closes and there is a switch on the garage door wall button. I would like to also control that through the hub. So that I can use a motion sensor in the garage to turn on when someone walks in without opening the garage. My current garage door button has a motion sensor for this, but it'd crappy and doesn't always register the motion. If I use a Shelly1 should I connect it to the wall mounted switch or the opener? Thx
Hi Thanks so much for your videos. , How do you add the reed switch to a 24-48v setup please, I can't get mine to work
3:48 Jumper should have been a popup.
How to connect to my new Hubitat v7 to Shelly1? I have followed your very detailed instructions and have configured shelly to the cloud and everything is working via shelly cloud. I am new to Home automation.
I tried this on my garage motor Krispol sparcus and shelly one plus. But now my garage door open/close stopped working tried remote + manual click on motor. Power is on and the motor has light. I can go to program mode and open and close the gate with arrows to set the max and min settings. So something in circuit board damaged?
Mounting the reed switch this way means that somebody could break into your garage, open the door (just not fully) and you would never know the garage door has been opened. Mount wired part of the reed switch on the rail to detect fully closed position. All it takes is a few extra feet of doorbell wire.
A good point.
Hola! saludos desde España. Podrias explicarme paso a paso como configurar una escenna y recibir notificaciones de puerta abierta. Por mas que lo intento no lo he conseguido. Gracias excelente video
I used a Shelly1 Mini Gen 3 for this and so 12V DC input was not an option. How should the reed switch be incorporated since in my case, following these instructions, would have one wire connected to the live 120 AC wire?
Amazing video!!! Installation super easy. However, I encountered an issue that I haven't been able to figured out. I set up the notifications when the door opens but the notifications only works if I'm using the shelly app. I'm trying to make it work without the shelly app. For me to receive notifications, I have to click the on/off switch in the shelly app but if I press the garage door opener button, I won't receive any notifications.
Can someone point me in the right direction or have any pointers? TIA
Referencing VH1 pop ups = showing your age! lol
Haha, yeah, I’m old.
I want my MTV !
Hi, I am trying to set up my Shelly 1 to control my garage door. I've gone through the set up but just get "pending connection" on my iphone 8, Ive tried a second shell1 and when I get to the stage to allow to join the wifi it eventually comes up with pending connection! can you help please? Thanks.
Can I connect shelly 1pm with TV, so that my tv to be smart? Or any smart device that can make my tv smarter?
Could we get some guidance on getting this system into Home Assistant? I'm not very familiar with MQTT and would appreciate the help. Great video though either way!
there's an awesome plugin for shelly and home assistant. github.com/StyraHem/ShellyForHASS
Can you please give the spec for the magnet as well?
I assume you could wire the Shelly in parallel with the existing button on the wall amd use both?
Correct.
Is there an update on the new Shelly app for this?
Amazing video! thanks!! a question.. I saw another videos when you connect the "reed switch" in another part of the shelly (in the front.. where are the gpio I think) ... is the same functionality?
I may have to do something like this next week. Have you considered combining this with the lock. Liftmaster 841LM is egregiously expensive, Meross are great but they do not communicate with OpenHab or HomeAssistant. Current, MyQ are not reliable, MyQ wireless door sensor is weak tho they added free integration with Google. I would rather have home automation controller and sonoff. Thinking that 4ch can handle both doors. Or add garage door locks. Great project. Thank you.
4:02 you just open the Shelly to change the jumpers, no need to fiddle through that little hole
Thanks for the cool tutorial! Is there a Zigbee alternative to the Shelly 1?
My motor board only have numberst at wire entrys, and I read the manual and is not explicit which number open/close the door, how can I know?
Do you have any advice for hooking this up to a newer craftsman opener? Connecting the two wires that connect the wired opener to the unit being connected don't cause the opener to fire. Maybe there is some kind of communication between the button and the unit? Thanks for the advice!
Yeah, it appears that these companies are doing everything they can to prevent 3rd party integrations in their newer openers. I'm not familiar with the craftsman, but the fix I've seen for others is to just hook your shelly up to the actual garage door remote.
Hi. I found this very useful and am up to the point where i need to connect my shelly to the gate switch board. I just don’t know where. Do you have an idea? It is an ATA SGO-1
Will Alexa understand "open the garage door" or "Turn on the garage door"? What about "Close the garage door" or "Turn Off [or On] the garage door"? Since it is a switch, might be latter. Can it be changed with the Shelly Cloud only?
You can change the name in the Alexa app. You can also make a routine if you want to have a more natural phase to invoke the skill.
I have the Shelly at 230v, so that it detects the open door that I put a normally open or closed magnet, does the magnet have to be 230v? Or does not it matter.
thanks.
I have just received a new Shelly 1 and with a normally closed Read Switch. In the Shelly app there is a green and red bar. Unfortunately, when the magnet closes the circuit the light shows Green. When the magnet breaks away the light in the app then goes RED. Seems backwards as I would expect a closed garage door should be good/Green light on the app. With all of this now said, I now believe the normally open read switch would instead be the right way to go.........Thoughts anyone
To clarify, I have an older screw drive whereas the moving parts start at the door opening and end up at the motor. Seem that running wire to the other end and mounting the magnets there will accomplish the same thing without buying another read switch. Learning is the name of this game :)
My next thought could be for Shelly to let the user assign the desired color...Normal setting = Red/Green and Reverse setting = Green/Red.
We have a "Smart" door opener.
Never used it.
Only the remote button on our visors.
Hey y'all. Loving this project. I am able to open the doors from the Shelly app as well as through the HA integration. My only issue right now is the sensor. For some reason it is not changing status consistently. Also, should the status change be immediate? I would think so. magnet is close enough to the sensor, I think😉! Thoughts?
Could you use a Shell 1L instead to avoid the power supply and draw power directly form the garage door?
No, a shelly 1L does not have dry contacts so it would pass 110v to your garage door inputs (which would kill your garage door).
Thanks for the how to! Worked great.
Do you know of a way to change the integration with Alexa to have the command as "Open/Close" instead of "On/Off"? Using the Shelly one, it identifies as a switch, and so in Alexa you need to say "Alexa, turn the garage door on"
How did you find the features like auto timer and toggle in the shelly app? The shelly app seems to work completely different on my phone than what's shown on the app.