There are several options for alerting you when your garage door is open. The intent of this page is to show you those options.
This wiki is intended to enable the I/O Linc Garage Door Kit and Indigo to provide an email or SMS alert when a garage door is left open past a certain time at night.
In this example, Indigo will check the garage door state at 11 PM every night. If the door is open, it will send an alert email or SMS (via an email to SMS gateway).
DEVICE
from the left column in the Home WindowNew
Define and sync
and enter the device Insteon addreass then Start
When the define and sync finishes, select Close
Edit Module Settings_
and select only the following options (click Upload Settings
after you change them)ge them):Update Indigo's internal Device input sensor state
Momentary mode for output relay (relay will only close for a few seconds)
Binary Inputs: 1
and that when the garage door is open, Binary Inputs: 0
. NOTE: in newer versions of the Garage Door kit, the sensor has been replaced with one that reverses this. So, if the instructions that came with your Garage Door Kit say that the status light should be OFF when the door is closed, then you'll need to reverse the ON/OFF selections below.Window:Variable List
or Cmd-9
. New
TRIGGERS
from the left column in the Home WindowNew
Device State Changed
Device: Garage Door Binary Input 1 Becomes On (or Off if reversed)
Always
Modify Variable
Variable:isGarageDoorOpen
Set to false
TRIGGERS
from the left column in the Home WindowNew
Device State Changed
Device: Garage Door Binary Input 1 Becomes Off (or On if reversed)
Always
Modify Variable
Variable:isGarageDoorOpen Set to true
Schedules
from the left column in the Home WindowNew
isGarageDoorOpen is true
Send Email
To your email address or SMS gateway address (can specify multiple addresses separated by commas). Subject: “Garage Door Status”, Message: “The garage door is open!”Good luck!
If you are forgetful and/or absent minded like me, sometimes you just forget to close the garage door. This can be a problem if you leave your house and leave the door open - you may find that you're missing some stuff when you return! So I cooked up this little solution that will send you an email or SMS (via the email-SMS bridge that your cell provider supplies) if the door is open for longer than 30 minutes (or whatever length of time you choose). This solution assumes you have a correctly installed I/O-Linc with a garage door kit, named “Garage Door” (see steps 1-2 of the How-to above).
Trigger Action List
from the View
menu.New…
button to create a new triggerCreate New Trigger Action
dialog, name the trigger “Garage Door Opened”Device State Changed
from the Type:
popupGarage Door
from the Device:
menuBinary Input 1
from the next popup menuBecomes Off (or On if reversed)
from the last popup menuActions
tabServer Actions→Script and File Actions→Execute Script
from the Type:
popupPython
from the Embedded
popupEmbedded:
radio button:dev = indigo.devices[IOLINCID] # "IO Linc" if not dev.states["binaryInput1"]: indigo.server.sendEmailTo("ADDRESSHERE", subject="The garage door is OPEN!!")
Delay by
checkbox and enter the number of minutes you want it to wait before sending the email/SMSOverride previous delay
checkboxOK
buttonThat's it. Now, whenever the garage door opens, it automatically creates a delayed action, and when that action fires, it runs the script that checks to see if the garage door is still open and if it is, it sends out the email.