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You can leave the infrared sensors in place, and use the relay to simulate a button press. It wouldn't be any more dangerous than clicking your remote when you
by function_seven 3y ago
You can leave the infrared sensors in place, and use the relay to simulate a button press. It wouldn't be any more dangerous than clicking your remote when you can't see the door.
- coupdejarnac 3y agoYou'd close a garage door blindly and ignore any problems that could occur? You haven't thought this through.
- seszett 3y agoI'm pretty sure that's how most remote controlled garage doors get closed. Maybe some people in individual houses watch and wait for their door to be fully closed before driving away, but that doesn't seem to be the norm for collective housing (I've certainly never cared myself) or even for most individual garages around here.
- nomel 3y agoMyQ lets you close them blindly. In fact, it has a built in timer that will blindly close it for you, after 30 minutes, or whatever you choose. They have pressure sensor strips along the bottom to detect impact that's not the ground, to make this reasonable. It's not some new idea, it's the current state of all of these remote doors.
- quickthrowman 3y agoYes? The garage door opener has limit switches and PIR sensors attached to it to handle the safety stuff, the remote is simply a switch..
- chromakode 3y agoThe problem with this is Chamberlain also implemented an encrypted protocol over their control wires in the name of "security".
- function_seven 3y agoIf there's a button somewhere, there's gotta be a place I can splice into and pretend to be a finger, right?
- chromakode 3y agoYep, but you need to do it on the board of a proprietary doorbell. Many projects take a cheap one and modify it. The unique thing about ratgdo is it reverse engineered the protocol.