RE: Comfort and Garage Door Opening - done !

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good to hear you've got it working Gareth :)

I used the relay board from Comfort to do the same - difference is that it
sits within the Comfort housing.

Is your garage door wallswitch just a simple switch or is there any
security built in? You might want to think about adding some more security
by having Comfort decide whether the switch is active or not (i.e. in away
mode the switch won't work until the alarm has been disarmed - an extra way
of protecting the door). This should be fairly easy to do - basically the
wall switch goes back to Comfort instead of directly to the garage door. In
Comfort, a couple of actions determine the alarm state - if armed, nothing
happens but if open, comfort pulses the door to open. You could add in all
kinds of conditions such as an arming timer where the wallswitch is active
for x amount of time (to allow you to manually control the door when arming
and leaving the house) etc.

I do this through HomeVision Pro which then talks to Comfort - but it
should be even easier to do directly with Comfort (I think).

Just a thought :)

Oh, one other thing - do you use the garage door remote? I disabled mine as
it's not that secure. Instead, I use a visonic 4 button secure keyfob (has
rolling codes and higher security etc like a car keyfob). The receiver is
connected directly to comfort which opens the garage door, electric locks
in the house, turns on lights etc - much more powerful than having just the
garage door keyfob plus the physical transmit range is huge :) Also allows
a lot more integration with the HA system so I can control anything from it
:)

Paul.



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> Sent: 04 December 2004 11:47
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