Fw: Comfort and Garage Door Opening - done !

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The wall switch is just that - press it, it opens. What I should do is add
a line before the pulse activation to ensure alarm state is not set.

And for the garage door remote - I've already made full use of that here -
http://palmlodge.com/lookup/911+Garage+Switch

G.

Gareth Cook
SWG EMEA North Account Manager
IBM SWG - BTE Office - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
AIM Chat : TheBoyG - MSN Chat : chat@xxxxxxx
email: g@xxxxxxx


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"Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
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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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