It's been glorious "work outside" weather this weekend. The garage door has been open a lot. To avoid letting the cat escape, I added a new Home Assistant automation to alert when the garage door is left open for a while.
Components used:
* Open Garage
https://opengarage.io
* Pushover
https://pushover.net
@chrisonline The Open Garage unit has a distance sensor. It's mounted in the middle of the ceiling, pointing downward. The "car present" is a binary sensor entity provided by the integration.
I built my automation (to detect door open) around changes in the "distance" entity (not shown on the dashboard). When it reads under 10 inches, it declares the garage door is open.
Courtney Rosenthal
Christian Grasser