Re: Stanley Homelink Garage Door Status Indicator instructions

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

5circles_at_gmail_dot_com@xxxxxxx (5circles) wrote:

>Does anyone have instructions for the Stanley Garage Door Status system
>that you could share?
>
>The system worked well for me about 10 years ago, but I mislaid the
>instructions.  I didn't need the system in the next house because of the
>way the separate garage and a gate was positioned.  But in this house
>garage door indicators would be useful.
>
>I think the components of the system are all working, but I can't figure
>out the sequence to train it properly.
>
>A copy of the instructions would be great, or a link to somewhere online
>(I've failed to find the information), or perhaps just a sentence on how
>to train the system.
>
>Any information would be most appreciated.

Mike,

This may or may not help - it's something I posted to CHA a few years back.
If it doesn't help, I _may_ have a copy of the original instructions stowed
somewhere. Most of these had very poor RF range. You can improve it quite
simply. See this link...

     http://davehouston.org/passive.htm

The next last paragraph below explains how to "enroll" the units. IIRC, you
just send any code to the unit numbers noted.

Stanley Homelink Garage Door Status Indicator
=============================================

The Homelink Garage Door Status Transmitters send RF commands to the Vehicle
Interface which then sends Type 29 (hex 1D) extended code commands over the
powerline to the Garage Door Status Indicator. The unit code of the Status
Indicator changes with the number of sensors.

Here's an example log snippet:

     17:57:56 RX: H5 Extended Data [10,1D]
     17:57:57 RX: H5 Extended Data [10,1D]
     17:58:01 RX: H5 Extended Data [11,1D]
     17:58:02 RX: H5 Extended Data [11,1D]

The first hex byte indicates which sensor is sending and the open/closed
state of the door(s). Bits 0-2 indicate the open/closed states and bits 4-6
indicate the active door sensor. In the above example, 10 indicates the door
is closed and 11 indicates the door is open.

With one sensor, the unit code is 1 and the possible codes are:

      Hex       Binary     Sender   State
     10,1D     0001 0000     1      CLOSED
     11,1D     0001 0001     1      OPEN

With two sensors, the unit code is 5:

      Hex       Binary     Sender   States 2, 1
     10,1D     0001 0000     1      CLOSED CLOSED
     11,1D     0001 0001     1      CLOSED OPEN
     12,1D     0001 0010     1      OPEN   CLOSED
     13,1D     0001 0011     1      OPEN   OPEN
     20,1D     0010 0000     2      CLOSED CLOSED
     21,1D     0010 0001     2      CLOSED OPEN
     22,1D     0010 0010     2      OPEN   CLOSED
     23,1D     0010 0011     2      OPEN   OPEN

With three sensors, the unit code is 9:

      Hex       Binary     Sender   States 3, 2, 1
     10,1D     0001 0000     1      CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
     11,1D     0001 0001     1      CLOSED CLOSED OPEN
     12,1D     0001 0010     1      CLOSED OPEN   CLOSED
     13,1D     0001 0011     1      CLOSED OPEN   OPEN
     14,1D     0001 0100     1      OPEN   CLOSED CLOSED
     15,1D     0001 0101     1      OPEN   CLOSED OPEN
     16,1D     0001 0110     1      OPEN   OPEN   CLOSED
     17,1D     0001 0111     1      OPEN   OPEN   OPEN
     20,1D     0010 0000     2      CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
     21,1D     0010 0001     2      CLOSED CLOSED OPEN
     22,1D     0010 0010     2      CLOSED OPEN   CLOSED
     23,1D     0010 0011     2      CLOSED OPEN   OPEN
     24,1D     0010 0100     2      OPEN   CLOSED CLOSED
     25,1D     0010 0101     2      OPEN   CLOSED OPEN
     26,1D     0010 0110     2      OPEN   OPEN   CLOSED
     27,1D     0010 0111     2      OPEN   OPEN   OPEN
     40,1D     0100 0000     3      CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
     41,1D     0100 0001     3      CLOSED CLOSED OPEN
     42,1D     0100 0010     3      CLOSED OPEN   CLOSED
     43,1D     0100 0011     3      CLOSED OPEN   OPEN
     44,1D     0100 0100     3      OPEN   CLOSED CLOSED
     45,1D     0100 0101     3      OPEN   CLOSED OPEN
     46,1D     0100 0110     3      OPEN   OPEN   CLOSED
     47,1D     0100 0111     3      OPEN   OPEN   OPEN

The Status Indicator requires that the sensors be "enrolled" by first
sending a signal to unit code 1 for the first sensor, then to unit code 5
for the second sensor, then to unit code 9 for the third sensor.

The RF signal from the sensor units appears to follow the same 32-bit format
used by other X-10 security RF transmitters with the exception that it
repeats immediately without the 40mS gap between copies used by most
transmitters.