RE: Automated Garage Doors whose got one ?

["mike" <mikegriff@xxxxxxx>]

I've got a Rollexa Door

Works brilliantly Added a couple of Micro switches and connected the whole
thing into Comfort via the control box

Remote opens or closes the door as does Comfort and the garage is always
alarmed unless the door is open at which point the lights come on and the
phone is put through to the garage - Lots of HA possibilities!!!



Seems to work well from the Porsche as well Gareth :0)

Mike



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From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 December 2003 11:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Automated Garage Doors whose got one ?



I've got one Gareth.

Seip door opener - has a dry contact switch closure to open/close which you
can connect a manual switch and/or HomeVision/Comfort etc. Mine is linked
to
Comfort via one of their relay boards. You can't force it open/closed
discreetly (I think) but it has 3 LED's on the PCB which show the following
states - Open, Nearly Open, mid-way, Nearly Closed, Closed. I took a feed
off of these LED's and fed them into HomeVision (via some opto isolators -
just for safety so I didn't blow up the PCB!). Homevision now monitors the
LED's and can tell the status of the door and in turn now announces
"Garage
door opening/closing" etc via AT&T Natural Voices through the
whole-house
speaker system. Works pretty well (apart from a bit of dodgy pronunciation
in the UK voices!).

I think most door openers should give you at least basic contacts that you
should be easily able to interface with Comfort :)

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Cook [mailto:g@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 December 2003 10:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Automated Garage Doors whose got one ?
>
> And I dont consider an electric door opener to be automated ! I see an
> automated Garage Door opener to be one that can link to the house
> controller - ie homevision, comfort.
>
> So, does anyone have an opener that can be forced closed (as opposed
to
> hacking the toggle switch they come with) ??
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> G.
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