Tilt sensor for garage

[watou (John Cocula)]

@dayoyo

all i really need is to detect if the door has been left open.

You might consider building your own Garadget device, or pre-ordering one. It uses the strength of reflected laser light to determine if the garage door is open.

Build your own garage door opener!

The creator of the @garadget has very kindly shared a recipe for building your own DIY version of the Garadget garage door opener, including parts required, onto which you can install the GNU-licensed firmware (or even make changes to it). There is already a binding available for openHAB (1, works on 2) so you can know your home-made device will work with openHAB. Or, you can pre-order a pre-built one. Hooray for open source! More information here:

The binding is pretty straightforward:

Garadget Binding