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iRayanKhan / homebridge-chamberlain

A Homebridge plugin for Chamberlain garage door openers with MyQ.
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Check status before opening #116

Closed dinof40 closed 4 years ago

dinof40 commented 4 years ago

It would be great if the plugin could check door status before opening. When using Homekit automation rule to open door on returning home sometimes it doesn't recognise you're home. You wait 20 seconds it still doesn't open so you decide to manually open the door with the remote, by coincidence, the automation rule then realises you're home and attempts to open the door again. This then stops the door and then you have to manually close and open it again.

furenberger commented 4 years ago

Do you have a virtual switch to open the door? I couldn't get HomeKit to open directly from a location trigger (without a prompt). I use homebridge-dummy which lets me to the logic you are talking about. https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge-dummy#readme. I really dont think it is proper to tie the logic of timeouts and checking to a library who's purpose is to open.close a garage door.

iRayanKhan commented 4 years ago

Closing: This plugin is now being deprecated. Please use this plugin.