Of all of the doors in a normal American McMansion, the garage doors are the biggest, and are almost always motorized. This means they are an easy target for automation, since most of the hardware is already there, we just need to bridge it to the virtual space. The cheapest way to do this is to use a door contact switch and dry contact relay which are compatible with Home Assistant, and some YAML magic to bridge them together.

In this video, I do exactly that, combining an Aqara Zigbee door and window contact with a Sonoff 4CH Pro and integrating all of that into my Home Assistant setup. At this point, I now have control of the garage door, so I can build more automation projects using the control I've built today.

All of the details on this, as well as the YAML code, are available on my blog post:
https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2022/gar...

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Hardware
01:20 - Firmware Flashing
04:51 - Wiring
05:49 - Tasmota Configuration
07:16 - Home Assistant Configuration
10:22 - Testing

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