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[Feature Request] Lights activated when obstruction beam broken #107

Open jschafermo opened 1 year ago

jschafermo commented 1 year ago

As I await my Ratgdo devices, I have a feature request. A few years ago, a lawsuit caused Chamberlain garage door opener lights not to come on when the obstruction beam was broken. Would it be possible to add a feature to activate the garage door lights for a configurable amount of time? Not having the devices, I assume I will be able to do this with a Home Assistant automation. For people without Home Assistant, I believe this feature could be useful for people using the hard wired buttons to Ratgdo without automations.

Thanks!

doctorkb commented 1 year ago

Since that was the subject of a patent lawsuit, I think that might earn ratgdo the wrath of Genie's lawyers as well... you're better off implementing that yourself as an automation in HA or Node-RED (or other platform).