Chamberlain MYQ Garage Door Control with new cloud connector

[zeenon (Bill Stulack)]

Folks,

Trying to figure out where things went south. I original followed the following tutorial at https://www.wemustbegeeks.com/use-alexa-echo-chamberlain-myq-openhab-ifttt/#ifttt and everything was working great.

I then installed the cloud connector and everything worked on the openhab side (I can open/close the door via the web app).

When I get to this section: For the +That part, choose openHAB

For Choose action, pick “Send a command”

Under “Complete Action Fields”, the item will be “GarageDoorSwitch”

The Send a command under Complete Action Fields has “Options unavailable” instead of “GarageDoorSwitch”

Any ideas how to troubleshoot?

Z

[sihui]

It’s not working yet:

myopenHAB replaces my.openHAB!

No, not yet - we still need some clarifications with the IFTTT guys, which won’t happen before Monday. I hope that we can have IFTTT active on myopenHAB by Tuesday. Will keep you posted here.

[RichP]

I think the IFTTT update took longer than expected by I do see GarageDoorSwitch in my IFTTT applets.

Initially these were showing up as “Loading Items”

Is it working for everyone else?

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAvY32DrQcBC3K6GQ0qWJphuJTECiek8wcA

[zeenon (Bill Stulack)]

I just went through the blog again with a fine tooth comb and no luck. I think the only changes that need to be made are adding the cloud.jar file to the addons folder AND adding the new lines to the openhab.cfg. I broke the link between IFTTT/openhab and re authenticated. Everything works in openhab…I see the notifications, I’m online, and I can hit the open/close button. I always get the 'No options found" instead of the garagedoorswitch when I use the applet maker.

Using 1.8.3 on windows.

Z

[RichP]

Bill,

In https://myopenhab.org/ do you see the GarageDoorSwitch listed under items?

If not, it won’t work.

If you do NOT see it listed there under Items:

Make sure it is exposed using the new cloud config in openhab.cfg: https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/openHAB-Cloud-Connector

Also may need to manually open/close the Garage Door so that status updates get sent to https://myopenhab.org/

Rich

[Steezy (Steve S)]

I followed the same tutorial as zeenon. I’m also unable to see any openhab commands in IFTTT anymore. I added the openhabcloud.jar file, removed the myopenhab.jar file and updated openhab.cfg. Is this all that is required?

I’m getting garagedoor related notifications (manual & openhab), but GarageDoorSwitch isn’t listed under items. I’m able to open/close the garage door via http://192.168.x.xx:8080/openhab.app.

[Benjamin_Gerke]

Good Day, I am new as well to the Alexa Christmas item and was wondering with the new cloud connector if there are additional clarification documentation. All is communicating except no notifications yet.

[sihui]

@Steezy

I’m also unable to see any openhab commands in IFTTT anymore.

Did you re-authenticate IFTT with your new account?

myopenHAB replaces my.openHAB!

Good news, all went well and IFTTT integration is now up and running on myopenHAB! All previous my.openHAB users should have received an e-mail tonight with instructions how to re-authenticate with their new myopenHAB account. Here are the details for the reference: Make sure you have already signed up for an account at myopenHAB.org Log into your account at https://ifttt.com Open https://ifttt.com/services/openhab/settings/connect, which will re-direct you to myopenhab.org. Log in at myope…

@Steezy

but GarageDoorSwitch isn’t listed under items.

Maybe you are affected by this bug:

myopenHAB replaces my.openHAB!

For all of you that try to expose items in OH 1.8: I think I found what your problem is. Item updates are only sent to the cloud if there is an update event (e.g. coming from a binding). If there is only a command and the state is switched through the auto-update, nothing is send. See this in my log: 2016-12-19 19:52:09.383 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents ] - Light_GF_Living_Table received command ON openhab update Light_GF_Living_Table ON Update has been sent successfully. osgi> 2016-1…

myopenHAB replaces my.openHAB!

Great, thank you all for testing that so quickly. I have just refactored the OH1 bundle and tested it - it now seems to work well and also pushed the auto-update changes to the cloud. You can find the new version for OH1 here - again, please test and if you report success, I will make this the official version.

[Steezy (Steve S)]

Assuming you had it working before cloud, please see the editors note here for update instructions after cloud.

[Steezy (Steve S)]

@sihui

Thanks for the info.

@sihui

Did you re-authenticate IFTT with your new account?

Yup. On IFTTT: URL=openHAB Cloud - Log in & Status=active.

Thought I found my mistake - didn’t update openhabcloud:expose=GarageDoorSwitch in openhab.cfg. However, still not seeing items in openhab or IFTTT.

@sihui

Maybe you are affected by this bug

openhab update GarageDoorSwitch ON - update sent successfully (I don’t see the debug line).

Update: restarted openhab and it’s working now! Thanks for the help guys.

[zeenon (Bill Stulack)]

I got it working also. I almost certain the openhabcloud:expose=GarageDoorSwitch in openhab.cfg fixed the issue.

Although watch out, I copied the line direct from wemustbegeeks which is garagedoorswitch and it still was not working then I said to myself let me try caps - GarageDoorSwitch and it started working within 30 secs.

Z