I had a spare Zooz ZEN16 and a spare LiftMaster remote control lying around, so put together this solution this morning:
The ZEN16 has an “Auto-off” option for each relay that I set to 1 second to mimic a momentary button push.
Already had a z-wave tilt sensor on each door. The only loss by this move is no longer knowing if the door is currently opening/closing, or stopped partially open.
I would think if you had a tilt sensor on each panel of the door you could even determine those states as well.
Also a simple series voltage regulator IC that derives a 3.3 volt source from the supply that the zen 16 is running off would eliminate the coin battery as a failure /Maintenace item.
I don’t get why you don’t have this information since you have tilt sensor on each panel. What’s the use of that if they aren’t use? Pretty easy to make a rule “closing” once close button is pushed from open position and vice versa.
I have one tilt sensor per door, not per panel. I could add one per panel, but that would create a battery-maintenance nightmare that wouldn’t be worth the trade-off for me.
I might add a 5v → 3.3v adaptor to power the transmitter at some point, but those garage clickers can go 5-10 years on a battery, so probably won’t bother.
Yeah, I opted for the ZEN17. I didn’t do anything fancy though, just wired it inline with my wall switch. Took all of 12 minutes to install and get up and running with OH, so I’m not missing the MyQ gateway at all.
My unit is on borrowed time though, so I’ll be looking around soon to see what non-chamerberlin options are out there.
At least they are staying true to form.
Also, huge thanks to @digitaldan for keeping this up and running as long as he did! 
I would think this is both rational and sufficient. Just put a tilt sensor on the highest panel that is vertical when the door is fully closed (possibly not the top panel, depending on how your door closes). If the door is open at all, it should trigger. I can’t see what sensors on the lower panels would add to that.
If anyone has success with a reliable alternative, let me know. I’ll be watching this thread for the best alternative option. So sad MyQ is dead.
Sorry missread. What you could simply do is add a second sensor, just the switching one. That’s what I’m planning to do. 1 magnet on the door, 2 sensor at top and bottom of range. Both open, door is open moving. One is closed, it means it’s either open or close depending on which one.
I agree that so many sensors one on each panel is a way over kill. However the discussion was around his lose of 2 out of 4 different states that the door could possibly be in.
state 1 fully closed
state 2 Fully open
State 3 partially open
state 4 in motion (moving)
I can see how a sensor for full open and second for full closed could achieve state 1,2,3 not sure how it would indicate the door is in motion. addition of sensors on the individual panels would however be changing the condition as each panel went from a vertical to horizontal position based on his use of “tilt sensors”
I am sure there has to be a less complex way to achieve the state 4 “door in motion” but like others I misread his saying he had a tilt sensor on each door (mentally added panel) but actually looking at what he had done with his remote and wired for 2 buttons I would guess a more logical reading of his post is he has 2 garage doors… 
Right, two doors, side by side:
If I had one door I probably would have wired to the wall switch like you did, but I have two switches separated by a doorway so wiring to both would have been a pain.
Y’know, I just bought these two damn LiftMaster (child brand of Chamberlain) openers about three months ago. The wi-fi connectivity and API were a major factor in going with them. 
One way I can think would be to monitor the power draw from the garage door itself. This would tell you when it’s moving.
I can think of many ways but nothing would be like reverse engineering the brain of the opener.
Yea or maybe like a hall effect pick up approach on the torsion bar pulleys magnetic sensor on a pully and as it passed by the stationary pickup which would pulse open closed thus a (state change) as the magnet moved is another way.
I am sure you could then write a rule that if the state of that item is changing at a repeatedly fast rate, then you show door is in motion.
Thanks, appreciate it. This pains me quite a bit, i don’t like giving up, but i have to admit that it does not seem like a reasonable solution exists that does not involve serious hackery and/or possible litigation that would put us at risk.
I’m going to recommend we pull the Myq binding from openhab in the next release, and i will spend my efforts elsewhere making sure we have alternatives to their services.
Y’all are getting super complicated. Ratgdo is giving me far more functionality than MyQ ever did, at a fraction of the price of buying packaged relays and tilt sensors and power monitors. And if you’re ambitious enough to be disassembling and soldering to an old opener remote, you can build your own rat-ratgdo in an hour or two, not having to wait for a premade ratgdo to ship. I’ve built 3, and they’re working great. So happy to have local control, with no lag!
yup looked at Paul’s solution also.
all depends on if you like go to hobby lobby and buy that model airplane in a kit or if you want to just buy a bunch of pieces of balsa wood and mylar and build your own plane from scratch.
All in what amuses you in the wonderful world of the home automation hobby I guess.
Well I didn’t knew about ratgo, which does exactly what I was saying, talk or intercept the brain.
I don’t see any information on how to built it yourself. Does it work only with esp32 or also with nodemcu board? Asking because I have 3 nodemcu board looking for a new life and that might be it
Yea that is the solution that HA has been recommending to folks the github link I added has the info if you go to the linked github.io page
There’s also rat-ratgo which is a true opensource solution based on his work. Paul decided to keep many thing closed while saying it’s opensource. This this fork was created with way more information if you want to built it yourself instead of paying for it.
yep, again a kit or a pre-assembled plane or just a bunch of balsa wood mylar and glue. Really all depends on what your skill level is and the amount of fun you want to have while working on your hobby.
I like to repurpose things too so since I already had every thing I needed to create a solution that works for me and get past the Myq screw over and since I have the more difficult doors openers as 2 of mine are commercial style for large roll up Garage doors I just did a in house solution. and run what I brung to the work bench
GitHub - Kaldek/rat-ratgdo: Open source schematics for ratgdo PCB is schematics to build one yourself. I built three. I used the esphome firmware because I already have other esphome devices.
Yeah I found about it, I linked it. I saw it’s based on esphome. Does openhab like esphome cause I think the Mqtt firmware would be simpler?
