Permanent button for Homelink

[Adnillien]

Yeah mine doesn’t do that. Oh well

Delete it from the car and reprogram it with the car outside sitting in front of your garage door.

 

[Bobby]

Yeah mine doesn’t do that. Oh well

It doesn’t? First person I heard saying that.

 

[acronce]

For opening, I don’t find tapping a couple times to be a major issue lol, but I set up an automation, also through Home Assistant, that uses the Lucid Home Assistant integration I built (and is open source), that opens the door whenever my car approaches and Home Assistant sees it as “home”.

I've got an OpenGarage installed (from a time before I got into building my own ESP8266/32 sensors and relays) and integrated with HA. @borski can you share your car detection/garage door opening automation?

I already have your awesome Lucid integration installed, but currently all I've done with it is make a dashboard to access the basic controls and specs. Nice to be able to access car functionality from our wall mounted tablets.

 

[borski]

I've got an OpenGarage installed (from a time before I got into building my own ESP8266/32 sensors and relays) and integrated with HA. @borski can you share your car detection/garage door opening automation?

I already have your awesome Lucid integration installed, but currently all I've done with it is make a dashboard to access the basic controls and specs. Nice to be able to access car functionality from our wall mounted tablets.

Post in thread 'Home Assistant Automations'
https://lucidowners.com/threads/home-assistant-automations.7897/post-186197

 

[acronce]

Thanks, but that link doesn't work?

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I've tried a bunch of searches ("Home Assistant Automations", "yaml", etc.) but haven't found that post. Sorry to be a pain...

 

[hydbob]

Thanks, but that link doesn't work?



I've tried a bunch of searches ("Home Assistant Automations", "yaml", etc.) but haven't found that post. Sorry to be a pain...

From @borski

I’ll kick it off - part of the reason I don’t care about anyone’s homelink woes anymore is because I no longer have to wait for Lucid to give me geolocated garage opening and closing.

I installed an Infinity Shield, after seeing people like it on this forum. It’s a completely offline tool that just replaces your single beam sensor with a multi-beam array, meaning any obstruction breaks the beam, not just the single line at the bottom. This is optional but made me more comfortable shutting the door automatically.

I used to use MyQ to control the door, but after they turned off API access because they’re proper asshats, I installed ratgdo for $45 in about five minutes instead. It’s infinitely better. Orders of magnitude better, seriously.

Because it’s local and there’s no cloud service, I not only get access to control the door in what feels like actual real-time with no wait, but I also get to see the obstruction and motion sensor status, in what seems like real time.

As a result, here are my automations (all of which I set up in the UI, without touching a single line of code). If you’ve got HA set up, I am happy to help build the automation for you, if the UI is confusing.

To automatically close the garage door six minutes after I leave (or whenever it’s left open for any reason):

alias: Auto close garage door
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_obstruction
    from: null
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 6
      seconds: 0
    to: "off"
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_motion
    from: null
    to: "off"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 6
      seconds: 0
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - cover.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_door
    from: null
    to: open
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 6
      seconds: 0
condition:
  - condition: and
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: cover.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_door
        state: open
        for:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 6
          seconds: 0
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_motion
        state: "off"
        for:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 6
          seconds: 0
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_obstruction
        state: "off"
        for:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 6
          seconds: 0
action:
  - device_id: 5bd3f28166bb4dffa429afdf09830d32
    domain: cover
    entity_id: d73cba0eb4d59525ea7a76e1e1dabfea
    type: close
mode: single

And to open the garage as I get home (which works literally flawlessly, 100% of the time being open by the time I drive up):

alias: Auto open garage door (Borski)
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.lulu
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: cover.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_door
    state: closed
action:
  - service: cover.open_cover
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: cover.ratgdov2_1b599b_1b599b_door
mode: single

 

[acronce]

From @borski

I’ll kick it off - part of the reason I don’t care about anyone’s homelink woes anymore is because I no longer have to wait for Lucid to give me geolocated garage opening and closing.

Perfect! Thank you @hydbob!

It's that second automation that I'm interested in. Looks easy to adapt to my set up.

 

[Viking]

I think I'll just buy a remote control and be done with it.

 

[GearHead]

I think I'll just buy a remote control and be done with it.

This. Just as easy to push a button on a remote clipped to the visor as it is to push a button on the dash.

Pete

 

[acronce]

But pressing a button is so much work

I've already got the automation working. It's really nice to just drive up and have the garage open automatically. Home link still pops up, but I just ignore it.

Automatic close was a bit trickier because I don't want to close the door on my wife, but I handled that by working existing motion sensors into the automation logic.

 

[borski]

But pressing a button is so much work

I've already got the automation working. It's really nice to just drive up and have the garage open automatically. Home link still pops up, but I just ignore it.

Automatic close was a bit trickier because I don't want to close the door on my wife, but I handled that by working existing motion sensors into the automation logic.

So glad it's helpful!

 

[ferrisfa]

For the love of god fix the Homelink. Make a permanent button for it. Don’t make me click the top, then homelink then the garage. Just let me click homelink and the garage or have an automatic garage close when backing out like Tesla. Otherwise this update is amazing

Another problem is I lose the backup camera view when I use the Homelink. So, I back out of the garage, close the door and then have to put the car in park and then reverse in order to see behind me. Way too many steps!

 

[Bobby]

Another problem is I lose the backup camera view when I use the Homelink. So, I back out of the garage, close the door and then have to put the car in park and then reverse in order to see behind me. Way too many steps!

Please let’s not rehash this AGAIN.

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Another problem is I lose the backup camera view when I use the Homelink. So, I back out of the garage, close the door and then have to put the car in park and then reverse in order to see behind me. Way too many steps!

While still in reverse, turn cameras off then on from pilot panel - backup view will return on glass cockpit screen. Still inconvenient, but this should be addressed in a future Lucid UX update

 

[ferrisfa]

While still in reverse, turn cameras off then on from pilot panel - backup view will return on glass cockpit screen. Still inconvenient, but this should be addressed in a future Lucid UX update

Thanks. I'll try that.

 

[MGRMLN]

I want that!

Me too!

 

[ferrisfa]

Please let’s not rehash this AGAIN.

So sorry I haven't read through the thousands of threads to see that this isn't an "original" post. You could've just replied that this has been discussed previously.

 

[borski]

So sorry I haven't read through the thousands of threads to see that this isn't an "original" post. You could've just replied that this has been discussed previously.

Sorry for the attitude; this just happens to be a sore topic as it has been brought up hundreds of times, lol. You had no way of knowing that, of course, so it was a bit unwarranted in this case.

In short: it’s not you, it’s it.

 

[Unmutual]

Almost everything has been discussed previously.

 

[Bobby]

So sorry I haven't read through the thousands of threads to see that this isn't an "original" post. You could've just replied that this has been discussed previously.

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