relay closes within 2 secs

[Brian001]

Hi there,

Awesome project but i have a small issue:

when i want to Open the closed garage door , i hear the relay clicking and it clicks again within a sec! same goes for the other relay and the state of the door doesnt matter (open or closed)

Hope that someone here can help

Thank you in advance

Brian.

Edit: its just the relay that basically almost instantly clicks again, the image changes after about 9 secs

[andrewshilliday]

This is the intended behavior. The relay's purpose is to simulate a human pressing the button on the wall. The human doesn't hold the button down the entire time the garage door is opening/closing, they just push the button and release while the door moves. The two clicking noises on the relay are the "push" and "release" actions and should occur within about a second of each other.

[rwadeg]

My 25+ year old garage door opener requires at 2 to 3 second press for it to activate. I was able to keep the relay activated (or closed) longer by changing a line in the "controller.py" file. Here's how: open the file controller.py with a text editor (/home/pi/garage-door-controller/controller.py) find the line that says: time.sleep(0.2) change the: (0.2) to (3.0) i.e 3.0 seconds save the file and restart program or reboot device now when you push the garage door button the relay will hold closed for 3 seconds

[andrewshilliday]

Sorry for the delay in responding. rwadeg is correct about the code to change. If there is interest, I could put that variable into the config.json file.