Garage Door Icon Openhab

This shows an icon for a garage door as well as the current status in text.

Garage door icon openhab.

The only real value you will need to customize is the mqtt server variable. I will be connecting my chamberlain garage door opener to open. The garage opener i bought is called boxer 3000 and it seems similar to almost all other openers on the market. See the instructions to learn more.

Since the door icons end in open png and closed png they won t work with a switch unless you make copies of them and rename to end in on png and off png. You can also add your own. These icons can be used when describing items. Starting openhab in debug mode will display your myq devices and the order they are listed in the api.

Adjust this to match the ip address of your openhab mqtt server. For people with only one garage door opener the value needs to be set to 0. One press starts or stops the opening and it runs until it s fully opened or closed. The funny thing is that i actually added garage door number 2 before number 1 so in my items file i have it backwards if you are looking at the myq number.

Grab the garagedoor sketch from github and and modify the code to your taste. These are the classic icons from eclipse smarthome. In this video i will show you how to connect or setup a chamberlain myq device with openhab 2. When the door is opened externally to oh only the reed switch triggers a message to oh and because the actuators and sensors are separate items there is no looping problem.

Also i changed the item names to reflect which garage door they are foor so i put a 1 at the end of the ones for garage door 1 and a 2 for garage door 2. If you have multiple garage door openers and or lights the device index is based on the order the garage door opener light s were added to the myq app.