Inspired by the Wyze Garage Door Bracket, an easy way to get the current state of your garage door using a contact sensor. I paired this with a Shelly connected to my garage door, and used a Home Assistant template to produce a garage door cover entity.
Everything is pressure fit / uses the taper of the Aqara contact sensor to stay in place. You'll just need a command strip or the likes to slap it on your garage door(s).
Q: Why not just line up the contact sensor on the side of the garage door?
A: Our house is old and the garage door is out of alignment, meaning it doesn't close the same way every time (nor gracefully). This is a more reliable method of determining whether the garage door is open or closed for my setup.
| aqara_garage_sensor.3mf | 177.4KB | |
| aqara_garage_sensor.stl | 113.1KB |
