reminder for open door at 10 p.m.

[Bambam]

Is it possible to get an email or push notification when your garage is still open let’s say at 10 p.m.? You might have forgotten to close it and you don’t want it to stay open the whole night.

[Ray]

This can be done easily in software — it does require changing the firmware and would be easy to do if you have programming experience.

[Anonymous]

+1 here but no programming experience.

[Anonymous]

I wasn’t up for doing a whole firmware, so I put together this python script using selenium package that I run as a cron job from my RaspberryPi. Pretty straightforward.

from selenium import webdriver

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display



#create virtual display

display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))

display.start()



# make a firefox-instance

browser = webdriver.Firefox(timeout=100)



#open url of og

browser.get('http://192.168.1.3')

status = browser.find_element_by_id('lbl_status').text

dkey = browser.find_element_by_id('dkey').send_keys('yourkey')

btn = browser.find_element_by_id('btn_click')



if (status == 'OPEN'):

btn.click()



browser.quit()

[Ray]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

I’m doing this using app integration, if you’re not interested in reprogramming the software. It involves using the REST API for Blynk which is actually very easy to use.

It’s fairly long, so I’ll post it in a new message.

[vrbt150]

Hi, I’ve created a Python script to check the door status that uses the OG API.

It uses the Requests package for Python.

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import requests

og_address = 'opengarage.lan' # set OG IP or hostname
og_password = 'password' # set OG password

response = requests.get('http://%s/jc' % og_address)
data = response.json()
status = (data['door'])

if (status == 1):
    parameters = {'dkey':og_password,'click':'1'}
    response = requests.post('http://%s/cc' % og_address, params=parameters)

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by vrbt150.

[Anonymous]

How do you implement this?

Hi, I’ve created a Python script to check the door status that uses the OG API.

It uses the Requests package for Python.

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import requests

og_address = ‘opengarage.lan’ # set OG IP or hostname
og_password = ‘password’ # set OG password

response = requests.get(‘http://%s/jc’ % og_address)
data = response.json()
status = (data[‘door’])

if (status == 1):
parameters = {‘dkey’:og_password,’click’:’1′}
response = requests.post(‘http://%s/cc’ % og_address, params=parameters)

Do you have to connect to OG via USB?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by .

[vrbt150]

Hi Chad, I’ve got a crontab (scheduled job) setup on my linux box that runs that script every night at 10pm. It communicates over http using the OG API.

[Anonymous]

Hi Chad, I’ve got a crontab (scheduled job) setup on my linux box that runs that script every night at 10pm. It communicates over http using the OG API.

Gotch, I thought you were implementing this on the OG itself. Makes sense. I could do that on my pi that runs my OSPi. However, I just figured out how to use Tasker on my phone to check the door(s) status at 22:30, and if Open, it will close the door(s).

I haven’t figured out a good way to post the Tasker recipe on the forums yet (i.e. post photos inline within a forum post). When I do I’ll post it here: HOWTO:App Integration to Check Garage Door at 10PM

[vrbt150]

I recently had a situation where my garage door nearly closed on my car while pulling into the drive way.

I had the auto close setting set to UTC: 13; 21:00 my local time.
I got home just before 21:00, opened the garage, went to drive in, and the garage door auto closed on me.

This got me thinking, that maybe a delay or dismiss feature is needed when auto closing if the door has recently been opened.
Hopefully in future versions 🙂

I’ve since disabled the auto close in the firmware, and gone back to using my python script.
I’ve modified it so it will check the current OG epoch time against the last door event.
If the door is open, and the last door event was 5 minutes or less, it will skip running the auto close.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests

og_address = 'opengarage.lan' # set OG IP or hostname
og_password = 'opendoor' # set OG password
og_doorwait = 300 # door auto close dismiss time (sec)

og_jc = requests.get('http://%s/jc' % og_address).json()
og_jl = requests.get('http://%s/jl' % og_address).json()
door_status = og_jc['door']
og_time = int(og_jl['time'])
og_log = og_jl['logs']

if door_status == 1 and og_time - og_log[len(og_log) - 1][0] >= og_doorwait:
    parameters = {'dkey':og_password,'close':'1'}
    request = requests.post('http://%s/cc' % og_address, params=parameters)

[lawrence_jeff]

@vrbt150 You are correct it doesn’t currently handle this scenario very well, you should have at least 5 seconds due to the beep warning, you could bump this setting to 10 and it would give you at least 11 seconds to pull in (under the rare chance you show up 1 second before the auto shut time) but its not very adaptive

It handles the similar one that you show up at 21:01 and open the door – it is smart enough not to close it but not if you get there right before and the time triggers. . I wonder if it should instead of cancelling the auto close it should just slide it 5 minutes past the last open time… that way it doesn’t get accidentally left open in the case you arrived later than you thought and still expected it to auto close.

The update to the code wouldn’t take much from memory – Since you are programatically inclined can you file a bug in the Github on this (or submit a pull if really motivated)

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by lawrence_jeff.

[Ray]

Without changing the firmware, probably the best work-around is to set the sound alarm to 15 seconds (or you can modify the firmware to make the sound alarm even longer). This way it will beep for that long before it triggers closing.

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