Smartthings Multi Sensor Garage Door

The big piece should actually be on the door and the small piece in the door frame.

Smartthings multi sensor garage door. Receive alerts from smartthings if your multipurpose sensor detects that doors and windows have been opened or left open or if the temperature changes. Tap to set enter yes must be capital y lowercase e s save. Smartthings support iris z wave garage door controller. When it is on smartsense garage door multi or smartsense virtual open close no dice.

The device is clearly working the activities stream shows consistent activity with regards to acceleration tilt and temperature but the door is constantly in close mode. Some people will want the vibration sensor on the door others will not. After installing the relay switch in your garage and placing a smartsense multi on your garage door which senses if the door is open or close you ll be able to trigger your garage door to automatically open close when you arrive leave through two different ways. Has anyone used a hardwired sensor instead of a multi.

Open and close garage door and see if the smartthings app picks up that it is closed. Never worry about whether you left your garage door open again. Fortrezz s documentation about setting this up as a garage door opener discusses how to install the door sensor and that using a sensor connected to their device will provide the zwave network a status of the open close state of the door. Selecting the multipurpose sensor s garage door option through the smartthings mobile app tells the device to use its 3 axis accelerometer to sense the tilt of the garage door so you can use it without the magnet.

I m not sure what you mean by add on devices but nortek one of the largest z wave device manufacturers makes the garage door controller that works with smartthings and is sold under multiple brand names including gocontrol and linear. Set aside the smaller magnet portion of the sensor not needed for sensing garage door status orient the main sensor vertically with the line to the right. If so how does the smartthings hub handle that device. Mount the garage door sensor vertically so that when the garage door is vertical it will read closed when horizontal it will read open to mount the multipurpose sensor in the correct orientation.

When the smartthings multipurpose sensor is connected with the smartthings hub it can be used as a garage door open closed sensor. Evolve relay switch how it works. A compatible garage door opener recommended. Different things work for different people.

Monitor your multipurpose sensor and other connected devices with the smartthings app for iphone or android. The big piece contains vibration sensors to help you know if someone is pounding on your door or kicking it.