Konnected Garage Door Relay

I have the binary zones properly setup but when i go to setup the switchable outputs that are connected to the relays for garage door opening closing the konnected board opens the relays and won t close them.

Konnected garage door relay.

Konnected is a platform to take legacy wired security systems and turn them smart. If you want to test if they are the correct wires attach a wire each contact. Find the switched outputs for the garage door opener. But that s not the only thing it can do.

Now if your activate the switch it triggers the relay as it s supposed to 500ms pulse and the door activates. Integrating an older garage door opener into your smarthome can provide convenience and security. Important notes for konnected and relays with the production boards you don t need a relay anymore for an alarm. There is dedicated 12v switch output for alarms.

One thing many of us use everyday are garage door openers. Most of the relays that we sell at konnected are low trigger relays. Wire warning buzzer optional but recommended you can use any zone for the buzzer except pin rx. Out pin or any zone 1 5 goes to in on the relay.

On most older openers they are labelled 1 2. The gear in the top right corner of the things properties in the smartthings app. The red one pictured above can be a high or low level relay. For instance for a garage door you just need to briefly close the circuit to actuate the garage door motor.

Make sure you change that setting in the thing configuration. A relay has two sides. Briefly touch the wires together. This should start the garage door movement.

Power trigger side of the relay. If you want to use konnected to control a garage door opener sprinkler system or turn on off something that has a separate voltage source you use a relay module.