Wemo Maker Garage Door Magnetic Sensor

Darlington npn transistor 1 50 or a relay 2 5 i like the darlington as it is cheaper and solid state and easier to wire up but depending on your specific garage door a relay may be a better solution genie garage doors have a lower contact voltage and a darlington can not bring it close enough to ground to.

Wemo maker garage door magnetic sensor.

I use ifff to pair the maker with my wemo light switch so i can use a long press on the switch to open my garage door. It works excellent for that and the setup is very straight forward. The wemo maker f7c043 allows you to control low voltage devices such as blinds sprinklers irrigation system pool pump powered gates etc. Speaker wire 21 42.

Garage door was closed or something similar how often. The wemo alerts will appear on the lock screen. Set up wemo maker set up wemo app set up notifications. I did coonect it to a sensor so it will show that the sensor has been triggered or not in the wemo app.

Seeing most garage doors have terminals on them to connect up a push button switch it is pretty easy to connect up a smart device that can trigger the door when we did this the only option in our region was using a wemo maker. There was already a 120v wall outlet and all the items needed to keep the wemo maker in a climate controlled environment. The magnetic sensor and speaker wire are optional. A while back a mate asked me to connect his garage door to his phone.

So i ordered the 12 magnetic sensor and 5 bundle of cable to. The wemo maker lets you control anything in your home with a low voltage dc switch. Arduino uno rev3 board or likely any arduino will do 25. Wemo maker 79 99.

Wemo maker sensor triggered notify me. Setting up the wemo maker requires two procedures. I ran both the magnetic door sensor wiring added the 22 2 wiring for length as well as a cat5 cable i had connected to the garage door opener ports red white on the garage door to my master closet. Wemo wi fi light switch 3 way 2 pack bundle control lighting from anywhere easy in wall installation works with alexa google assistant and apple homekit wls0403 bdl 4 3 out of 5 stars 479 79 99 79.

It is a device that brings wemo i nternet connectivity and gives control to the do it yourself diy minded consumers. Take a garage door opener for example. The switch is actually triggered when the door is closed. All day daily keep in mind this may be somewhat counter intuitive for those unfamiliar to normally closed switches.

If you want to know when the garage door is open or closed then you will need them.