Thank you eugen for your code. As I see (and you also wrote) you have one switch but I have now Up and Down. The behaviour is like this: If you press UP the door opens and if you press any switch again the door stops.
I will try to implement your code but I am not sure doing this for UP/DOWN-Switches.
The Alexa stuff can be deleted, can it?
i have only one switch for garage opener which react on event like this “Open-Stop-Close-Stop”
alexa stuff can be removed.
do you have a sensor or other way to derive the current status of the door, e.g. close/open?
at the end you need to provide the current and target states.
e.g. if “UP” switch is activated you would set the target state to “OPEN”, if “DOWN” is activated then to “CLOSED”.
rule "garage door state update"
when
Item garageDoorStatus received update
then
if (garageDoorStatus.state == "OPEN" ) {
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("OPEN")
garageTargetState.postUpdate("OPEN")
garagentorZu.postUpdate(OFF)
garagentorAuf.postUpdate(OFF)
} else {
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("CLOSED")
garageTargetState.postUpdate("CLOSED")
garagentorZu.postUpdate(OFF)
garagentorAuf.postUpdate(OFF)
}
end
rule "garage door target state"
when
Item garageTargetState received command
then
if (garageTargetState.state == "OPEN") {
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("OPEN")
garagentorAuf.sendCommand(ON)
garagentorZu.postUpdate(OFF)
} else if (garageTargetState.state == "CLOSED") {
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("CLOSED")
garagentorZu.sendCommand(ON)
garagentorAuf.postUpdate(OFF)
}
end
I am not at home now. When i am back i am going to check the rules again.
I guess i have to rethink my rules. Also i am using a real contact sensor for the state of the door. This i a knx contact which sends contact close when door is completely closed and open when door is not in closed state.
garagentorAuf / garagentorZu Items are working. I have them visible in Homekit and Openhab Ui.
In garageTargetState rule i am sending the command to the items. The postUpdate command is to set the visible state in the Ui (Homekit ui and openhab ui).
This is because openhab does not have push buttons.
I am a little confused on the DPT for my contact sensor.
In the documentation they write Default DPT for a contact is 1.009
But in the attached example near the end of the page they use 1.019 as DPT.
Type contact : demoContact "Door" [ ga="1.019:<5/1/2" ]
What is right now and what do I use if I have more contacts (like window contacts)?
Also State is not read from contact. Is your physical contact thing also from type contact?
I am also getting warnings in the log file after restarting openhab:
2020-08-09 19:31:36.449 [WARN ] [essories.HomekitGarageDoorOpenerImpl] - Current door state not available. Relaying value of CLOSED to HomeKit
2020-08-09 19:31:36.450 [WARN ] [essories.HomekitGarageDoorOpenerImpl] - Unsupported value NULL for garageTargetState. Only CLOSED and OPEN supported. Check HomeKit settings if you want to change the mapping
If found out now that using “String” does not work for me.
String garageDoorStatus "Garage door Status [%s]" <door> (gGarageDoor) {homekit="ContactSensor",.......}
So now it works with this rules. I think it is totally confusing. Receiving an update is posted as Command (no string e.g OPEN) but receiving a command is posted as string (e.g “OPEN”)
Here is the solution for using an UP and DOWN button for a garageDoorOpener with KNX:
rule "garage door state update"
when
Item garageDoorStatus received update
then
logDebug("GarageDoor", "garageDoorStatus.state --> " + garageDoorStatus.state )
var curState = garageDoorStatus.state
logDebug("GarageDoor", "curState --> " + curState )
switch(curState) {
case OPEN: {
logDebug("GarageDoor", "case OPEN done" )
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("OPEN")
garageTargetState.sendCommand("OPEN")
garageTargetState.postUpdate("OPEN")
}
case CLOSED: {
logDebug("GarageDoor", "case CLOSED done" )
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("CLOSED")
garageTargetState.sendCommand("CLOSED")
garageTargetState.postUpdate("CLOSED")
}
}
end
rule "garage door target state"
when
Item garageTargetState received command
then
logDebug("GarageDoor", "garageTargetState.state --> " + garageTargetState.state )
var curTargetState = garageTargetState.state
logDebug("GarageDoor", "curTargetState --> " + curTargetState )
switch(curTargetState) {
case "OPEN": {
logDebug("GarageDoor", "Garage Door will be open")
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("OPEN")
garagentorAuf.sendCommand(ON)
//garagentorAuf.postUpdate(OFF)
}
case "CLOSED": {
logDebug("GarageDoor", "Garage Door will be closed")
garageCurrentState.sendCommand("CLOSED")
garagentorZu.sendCommand(ON)
//garagentorZu.postUpdate(OFF)
}
}
end
Only one thing is still to solve: What if the door is opening or closing and you change the state in den garageOpener item in homekit. In my case the door stops in current position. I think another rule is needed. Maybe also a second physical contact too.
cool. you found the solution.
im also thinking about the second contact sensor. currently i can only see whether the garage is closed or not, but not whether it is completely open or stopped somewhere in the middle… maybe even something with movement sensor…
An idea could be to run a timer on open or closing the garage door. If a „stop command“‘is send, then the timer is stoppt and you know, that the door is neither open nor closed if timer is not run to zero. And before starting the timer store the current state of the door into a variable.
Could be getting complex, but maybe will work.
