This make me want to buy a motor for my garage, i really cant justify buying a motor, else than it would be awesome to automate... :( If this comment gets 10 likes i will buy myself a motor and a shelly for my garage :D
Saved this page nearly a year ago - finally got around doing it today - and want to say that I love how detailed and thorough you are. Can't believe how unbelievably easy this was from start to finish.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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 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.🙏
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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! 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 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.
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.
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.
You would be surprised how many of my subscribers are still uncomfortable with non purpose built products. Everyone should know the joy of hacking a solution together from components!
Well good thing you can still watch this video even if you are an "OG". This format of video is great for everyone, new viewers and people who have been around for a while.
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
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.
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?
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.
This is possibly addressed in one of the prior 447 comments. I want a dumb smart garage door opener. My remote controls, battery powered RF work fine and do exactly what I want, they open and close the garage door. Unfortunately the batteries die at unfortunate times. What I want is a device that is smart enough to plug into AC and for me to control by my phone and dumb enough to just send the RF signal like my current remotes. No hooking up to or modifying the action of the opener. I know that it will not tell me if the door is open or closed; I can use my eyes for that. Dumb-smart, that's what I need.
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.
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 🤷
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.
You mean putting the reed switch in the fully closed position? I agree that is a slightly better option, but significantly more difficult to accomplish since you wouldn’t be able to use the chain method (since that part of the chain passes through the sprocket on opening).
@@TheHookUp what about putting the reed switch at the other end of the track and run the wires back to the motor unit, the magnet can stay where you suggest then
Clear, easy to understand, yet comprehensive video as always. Thank you. Don't stop. On a related topic, do you have any recommendations to rehabilitate sensors from an old abandoned wired alarm system? It would be great to use the existing hardwired sensors (doors, windows, PIR, fire) and integrate them into my smart home. Konnected seems to offer a decent solution.
If you know where your Alarm system Box is (mine is in the garage and looks similar to the breaker box) then you can gain access to every wire running to your sensors. You will have to do some testing as most non-working alarm systems may have the wires in place but the company cuts them strategically. Mine happened to leave the main power coming into the box and they just cut some of the output wires to the sensors, so I just had to trace the in-coming power wire and jump it to the device I wanted to us. In my case, I used the old Alarm Siren and a shelly 1pm device so that I have a local alarm that sounds when doors open and the alarm is armed. I may do a video on that on my youtube channel. If that is something you think you would like to see, please let me know.
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?
Can't wait for the outdoor shades video. Thanks for being a guinea pig :-) am looking to do the same over my deck but bailed on the idea after getting local pricing. Are they overhead shades and waterproof?
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?
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!
Could you create a video on how to do this but for consumer electronics such as an air purifier or a cheap fan or coffee maker? I would love to know how to make a dumb object smart.
When / are you going to finally start a "the hook up" discord? You do such a great job of breaking complicated stuff down for beginners, a discord server would be great for those of us who refuse to use Facebook
@@TheHookUp that's the best part about discord, you don't have to. You advertise it and people show up and help each other. You just step in every once and again
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?
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?
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?
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!
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
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
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 ?
Of course new house has liftmaster with some security crap in it that jumpering does nothing. Garage can literally only be opened by pressing the wall mounted door control or the control in the car
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
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?
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 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?
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
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 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?
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.
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.
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
This make me want to buy a motor for my garage, i really cant justify buying a motor, else than it would be awesome to automate... :( If this comment gets 10 likes i will buy myself a motor and a shelly for my garage :D
Haha, one like from me... in fact I’m going to pin this comment, RIP.
@@TheHookUp Dude.. haha. Don't need 10 likes, a PIN from you is enough! :D I'm getting a motor later today! :D
Now the garage door motor is installed, next thing is to buy a shelly :)
niiiiice
@@tymotymo1 Nice! Did you get it hooked up?
Saved this page nearly a year ago - finally got around doing it today - and want to say that I love how detailed and thorough you are. Can't believe how unbelievably easy this was from start to finish.
Great to hear!
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.
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?
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.
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!
Thanks Rob. I never thought of using the SW for a sensor 👌🍻
Rob went all 90s VH1 on us!
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 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
worked like a charm! Got mine hooked to my homeassistant! Thanks for the guide.
Nice and simple video! The idea of attaching a reed switch to the garage chain is pretty brilliant, I have to say :)
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.
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.
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.
Works great with my gate (motor Hormann Lineamatic). Thanks!
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..
Thank you, I did it by myself. Let's go smart home 🔥😶
You had me at Pop-Up Video. 🤣
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.
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.
Excellent explanation of a perfect DIY Home Automation project!
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 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.🙏
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.
Great simple video. It opens up a lot of options and other ideas in a simple budget. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this video! As a new first home owner, this is super practical.
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.
The hook up + shelly = perfect!
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
Hey Rob, can't wait for your patio renovation phase 1 and 2 videos..... great work
Another great video Rob. Like how you are trying to help draw in more beginners.
I always enjoy these videos. Don't stop making them
I did not know those Shelly devices could do 12v. I might have a use for that.
When you connect the Reed sensor can you make the app alert you when the door is open for a period of time?
Yup, doing this already and works really well with NodeRed/IFTT
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.
Can the information about the state of the switch be passed to Alexa?
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.
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.
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! 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...
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.
ALWAYS extremely interesting information!! Thanks!
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.
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.
Understand your catering to newbies, but dam us OG's are your core audience mate 👍 Either way, I'll still click like and watch
You would be surprised how many of my subscribers are still uncomfortable with non purpose built products. Everyone should know the joy of hacking a solution together from components!
@@TheHookUp yep absolutely, we all been there!
Well good thing you can still watch this video even if you are an "OG". This format of video is great for everyone, new viewers and people who have been around for a while.
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
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.
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?
Have you considered updating this video with the Shelly Pro Dual Cover?
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
Referencing VH1 pop ups = showing your age! lol
Haha, yeah, I’m old.
I want my MTV !
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.
This is possibly addressed in one of the prior 447 comments. I want a dumb smart garage door opener. My remote controls, battery powered RF work fine and do exactly what I want, they open and close the garage door. Unfortunately the batteries die at unfortunate times. What I want is a device that is smart enough to plug into AC and for me to control by my phone and dumb enough to just send the RF signal like my current remotes. No hooking up to or modifying the action of the opener. I know that it will not tell me if the door is open or closed; I can use my eyes for that. Dumb-smart, that's what I need.
That video is actually coming soon.
Anyway to get a notification when the door status changes within the app?
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.
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
Hi Rob
Would you consider doing a video of doing the same thing with Home Assistant and tasmota on Shelly 1 with the same reed switch and wiring?
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 🤷
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.
Would prefer indication of 'door not closed' instead of 'door not open' as you describe.
You mean putting the reed switch in the fully closed position? I agree that is a slightly better option, but significantly more difficult to accomplish since you wouldn’t be able to use the chain method (since that part of the chain passes through the sprocket on opening).
@@TheHookUp what about putting the reed switch at the other end of the track and run the wires back to the motor unit, the magnet can stay where you suggest then
Any chance there will be a 2.0 version of this video with these improvements? :)
Clear, easy to understand, yet comprehensive video as always. Thank you. Don't stop. On a related topic, do you have any recommendations to rehabilitate sensors from an old abandoned wired alarm system? It would be great to use the existing hardwired sensors (doors, windows, PIR, fire) and integrate them into my smart home. Konnected seems to offer a decent solution.
If you know where your Alarm system Box is (mine is in the garage and looks similar to the breaker box) then you can gain access to every wire running to your sensors. You will have to do some testing as most non-working alarm systems may have the wires in place but the company cuts them strategically. Mine happened to leave the main power coming into the box and they just cut some of the output wires to the sensors, so I just had to trace the in-coming power wire and jump it to the device I wanted to us. In my case, I used the old Alarm Siren and a shelly 1pm device so that I have a local alarm that sounds when doors open and the alarm is armed. I may do a video on that on my youtube channel. If that is something you think you would like to see, please let me know.
We have a "Smart" door opener.
Never used it.
Only the remote button on our visors.
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?
Can't wait for the outdoor shades video. Thanks for being a guinea pig :-) am looking to do the same over my deck but bailed on the idea after getting local pricing. Are they overhead shades and waterproof?
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?
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!
3:48 Jumper should have been a popup.
Could you create a video on how to do this but for consumer electronics such as an air purifier or a cheap fan or coffee maker? I would love to know how to make a dumb object smart.
When / are you going to finally start a "the hook up" discord? You do such a great job of breaking complicated stuff down for beginners, a discord server would be great for those of us who refuse to use Facebook
I hear ya, unfortunately, I just don't have time to keep up with another location.
@@TheHookUp that's the best part about discord, you don't have to. You advertise it and people show up and help each other. You just step in every once and again
Last thing I'm trying to figure out is I need wire for this. Any links on exactly what I should buy?
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.
Anyway to be notified after an hour of the garage door being left open in the shelli app?
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?
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?
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
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
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
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 ?
Any Chance this could be tweeked for a Motorized Rolling Gate? And could the 12v p/s be supplied with a battery?
Of course new house has liftmaster with some security crap in it that jumpering does nothing. Garage can literally only be opened by pressing the wall mounted door control or the control in the car
Wouldn't it be better to have a close door sensor instead of an open door one? Then you could distinguish between closed and partially open
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
Is there an update on the new Shelly app for this?
Neat. Thank you.
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?
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 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?
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
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 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?
Going to attempt to do this over the weekend! When you say any "thin wire" will do, will jumper wires work to connect to the garage door opener?
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.
Great videos. Will this work with Google home / Google assistant?
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?
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.
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