no I then I reversed the polarity which doesn't matter because it's a momentary
switch I know do not want to do this four times one muffin okay I'm gonna die
it's no secret that our previous attempts at DIY Smart Home Solutions
have not always gone according to plan the smart garage door opener at my old
house ended up de-smartifying itself when the wires we soldered started
picking up some kind of radio waves that caused my garage door to inexplicably
open and close and our attempts to use
gem Brighton smart dimmers with motion sensors on them for presence detection
blew up in our faces when we discovered that jazzco the company that actually
develops the switches and the firmware for them won't send out firmware updates
to individual users and the freaking things were broken because they were on
four-year-old firmware but not today today we are taking our second crack at
smartifying a dumb garage door opener and it's gonna go flawlessly thanks to
the this enforcer open and close sensor
and this Fortress multi input it's a
memo it's called the memo multi-input multi-output it takes the sensor it
writes to the garage door like a relay what could go wrong nothing I tried it
before just like you tried those switches well I told you to buy different ones and just like I tried to
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the main functionalities you want out of any smart garage door opener are twofold
one you want to be able to open and close the door from an Internet
connected device like a Google home or an echo or your smartphone and number
two you want to be able to check the status of the door so that you know if
it's open or closed that way you can configure automations like say for
example if my garage door is still open at two in the morning that's probably
not intentional please go ahead and close that as you can see the garage
door openers that I have have neither of those things now what I could do is I
could buy myself a pre-fab kitted out
smart garage door opener the issue as I
discovered at my old house is that Chamberlain who has a near Monopoly on
garage door openers at this point forces you to go through their my Q platform in
order to access any of those controls it's super close down and just has
bone-headed limitations like when you go to close it it goes
light flashes for like 10 seconds before
it will actually start to close I don't need that I just want the door
to close Chamberlain openers also don't play nicely with simple momentary switch
buttons like these ones so you're forced to use theirs which prevents you from
using any other ecosystem so the obvious answer is to save myself hundreds of
dollars by converting my old dumb openers into Smart Ones using just a
couple of really cool devices and some of them are pretty simple like this yeah
that's super cool I can't believe we didn't think of this last time we had that little Roost thing that you can't
even buy as a consumer they sent it to us but it's battery powered which means
the battery died and then I never replaced it this is about as simple as
it gets it's literally just a magnetic contact you see these on Commercial
garage doors all the time all the time we even have them at the office and I
didn't think to use literally only on this guy which is the sensors got the
wire attached to the frame and then this guy which is our kind of contact to the
door oh my God wait that's how it touches
something like that uh that looks kind of janky um ah I think this is tightened
down and like bending this and I think that's why it's not wide
enough to just come on here oh hey there's other parts oh well that makes
sense this L bracket might be useful yeah here's some self-tappers are
contractors on hand and he's just like watching the stupid way that I'm gonna
do things he's like no no really There's A Better Way Linus it's like dude I know
but I'm gonna do it this way anyway see watch
there we go see it worked no I'm not taking it out I just want to
whoops so how does it go on do we actually need to loosen this Bolter now
well I see an example but now I'm just kind of more confused yeah look see it
bends now it bends so I bet I can look
at let's get it on there now sort of not really while he's figuring
out how to test it I'm just going to YOLO install it put it like very close
to the bottom so it'll detect even if the garage is open for sure a little bit
can I have some self-tappers no I need more
oh that's definitely okay that's too much okay we'll just have them it's fine
everyone just goes full snark mode as soon as they start doing anything for me
it's like oh that's not quite enough here's three times as many this is
interesting uh you got they look like horse hoof
trimmers but they're for tools no they
look like this hold on
I'm at a loss straight hoofing Bud everyone's talking to me like I'm crazy
horse with true when you even I want one
of those oh oh oh man that's not easy to
get at any bit and uh please yeah please
remove the screw tripping the end off and then oh that's a good idea that's
way smarter thanks Dan you're very welcome these are both excellent ideas I
like Reese's way better oh wait no no Reese's idea doesn't work yep nope sorry
we're back to Dan's solution good job Dan Dan you win yay I don't know what
you win oh my God these are not gonna
cut this this is wow what is this screw made of
Jesus Christ
totally fine all right rock on then we're good enough
is that Ethernet or is it two conductor I told them to run two this is cat six
okay we'll pick some Pairs and all right
wonderful thanks so much Dan I knew we had you here for a reason Dan's here by
the way so far he has handed me this Cat6 stripper
he's a stripper what pairs are you feeling Jake
should we be green boys today yeah I'm done with green feeling green for
Success why did you have them run cat 6A if we only need two I didn't I told them
to run two conductor and they ran Cat 6A anyways and they also ran Ethernet from
up there to the mechanical room I'm pretty sure for some reason don't know
why they would have done that so like that might have been my fault yeah I
didn't know that it was going to be all Wireless okay Jake I'm hooked up we ready to test
it okay time for you to get up on the ladder on the ladder I mean yeah that
cable goes up there oh yeah it's an A-frame ladder but it's I
don't think it goes that high stand twice that height you know that's
extremely sketchy okay let's use this ladder on that garage door and we'll
just do one first hold on a second let's just think for a second here
hey you know what Dan's tall oh God don't worry you always want to put it on
the last rung that's the safest one I'm gonna die
why are we doing this on top of the ladder instead of bringing the ladder down well because we thought that we
could do it from on top of the ladder obviously everybody Dan Dan Dan
everybody's being mean now totally dead hinge must be locked fully before using
really not partially this is what I'm trying to say what are you working the
logistics Department stop being so logistical about it just let it happen
man who pays our bills sometimes is that the only reason you
don't want me to die yeah you also get blood all over the floor this is awesome
okay we're great you can make it up to me by buying a desk pad on lttstore.com
making your workspace look so pretty I'll buy two this Cat6 front is the same
one that's hooked up to the door sensor so I stripped the same pair the green
pair and now what I need to do is I need to wire it into my memo module here this
is Z-Wave plus compatible which means that our smartphone or whatever other
smart device communicates over Wi-Fi to our Z-Wave controller in our case it's
an AO Tech stick and that is going to communicate over Z-Wave to this buddy
right here now because of another issue we ran into with those GE switches that
they don't seem to support any kind of Z-Wave security or encryption it seems
like we might be having some signal strength issues because they also don't
seem to pass through a signal for devices that do require security for a
light I don't care but for garage door opener I care a lot so in the meantime
Jake has plugged in a couple of aeotech smart receptacles to act as a relay for
us just to get the signal from the mechanical room to here
okay so is that ladder locked at all or no I'll move around it's locked a little
yeah safety patrol okay I should be powered now jakku
jakku I see lights
ah yes it's working
when I just had it set up over there it was barely working like maybe one in
every 10 tries now that I've added the repeater plugs and told that Z-Wave
device to heal its connection every time I click the button it turns on anyone
see again nice signal two in ground yeah and well
the appropriate ground I'm sure you can figure that much I'll find a ground well
there's actually three grounds what one for power one for Sigma
why did I even listen to what you said oh I have to ah that makes sense I was
tinkering with it over there and I was playing with the sensor and it wasn't updating you have to switch it from
periodically update to on change which
is what we want right do you have it hooked up now it should be yeah it's
definitely reporting a different value okay where is it right now it's on it's
like next to it pull it away oh yeah oh nice so I can screw this onto
the door then sure nice okay oh this is
great this is actually going shockingly smoothly I guess that's what happens
when we pre-test I tested this out of these
oh that one pulled something ow
I'm weak I'm weak guys
it's closed right now then right I believe so yeah it's at four should I
open the garage no I'm gonna open the garage no I'm opening the garage one
mistake are you ready can I do it now yeah you're good which one is it the
bottom one uh no the bottom one is the close one wow that's stupid open okay
stop and open and ah oh I'm in the sensor
all right okay yeah go ahead
and close immediate nice yes
yes that works so well and we don't even have to have any janky wiring over by
the buttons they'll just work completely as normal they have no idea that any of
this is even here yeah you just have to stick a little wire onto the button now
I have to stick a wire onto the button sorry what all right okay the button I'm working on
it Jake you don't happen to know which contacts I'm I mean there's nothing here
is there really that many well there's three three so I'm just going to cut myself a
nice big old chunk of this I'm not sure
what voltage a garage door button runs at but it's probably like 12 volt DC so
a garage door opener or something sending signals is going to be way too
low voltage to trigger that because this is door two right where does it even go
into it's signal two right yeah well they're called no two com2 and nc2 which
I'm assuming is no connection to no no that would be normally open and normally
closed so you'll want normally open two and come too okay sorry one more time
door two uh I'm sorry I can't look at that right
now can you look at it for a sec no yes you can fine
yes that store too Brandon can you even see from there there's little lights
turning on and it's going click click so can we just wait what there's like
caulking here why you ready hold on no no don't do anything you're not ready
nothing what do you mean nothing I mean it doesn't work I don't believe you okay
go nope nothing what the okay hold on hold
on Jake let's try the red and white one just to humor me I thought you were
trying it both way that's what you said you tried it the other way no and then I
reverse the polarity which doesn't matter because it's a momentary switch I
know it's been a rough oh my God
my bad my bad stick it on there this is
so uncomfortable I do not want to do this four times I'm a muffin okay my
back hurts well move the ladder so it's more ergonomic you tool just get in
there Jake hit it
yeah yeah and the scents are updated
immediately okay now it's time to melt this boy
so like I mean I guess here is fine right just go for it brother wherever
you oh don't don't do that what don't do what you can't get the cover on if you
mount it to the ceiling first oh my God the cover screws on from the back yeah
why now we need to hook up jumper then so
that I can control the other one as well yeah Jake I'm doing it what I'm I'm
doing it what right now I use the green
pairs for both the sense and the signal from the button but now that I know that
we have to have two of the pairs coming from over there one for Signal one four
cents for the whether it's open or closed I would like to color code it I
don't care it's your house okay the one downside to an approach
like this is we don't really have a way to tell the garage door to open or close
we just have a way to tell it to activate which depending on where it is
will open or close so I added a little bit of like logic to the sensor so that
if the garage door is closed and you say Hey Google Assistant close the garage
door it's not going to then open the door because that would suck it'll only
close it if it's open but here look at that you got to tell me when you're
gonna do that what oh wow yesterday at 7
pm you drew almost 8 000 Watts concurrently that's a little did you
have the oven on maybe all right ah I
think I did it ow my back in order to get voice assistance like Google
assistant and that other one from Amazon to work the best way to do it is to use
home assistant Cloud which is a paid service it's only like five bucks a
month but it is run by the people that make home assistance so I thought the
whole idea was I didn't want this to be Cloud bound okay well how is it going to
be not Cloud bound if you want to use Google Assistant
so once you have that set up all you need to do is add you don't need the
homes to snap for this I don't well you can get it later oh okay you need to
activate the home assistant Cloud skill for Google Assistant you can set it up
without the cloud thing but you have to use like a test app and you got to like
re-off it every like two weeks it's awful you might as well just pay the
five dollars okay set up a device okay so we're done setting up a device which
means we should be good to go then oh oh whoa no way open the lower big
garage
yeah yeah it's the lower big garage closed
it's open lower big garage D2 is open and it is
shut all the garage doors
sweet that's amazing I tried to do that
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this is definitely the better way of doing it oh yeah
yeah we did it boys