Does anyone have recommendations for garage door and man door sensors?

I've got two garage doors and a man door that I would like to monitor, and I wouldn't mind having a couple of occupancy sensors.

It doesn't need to connect to any smart home stuff but that wouldn't be a bad thing, either.

I actually would be interested in some window and door sensors for other places as well. Maybe it's time to initiate a Home Assistant installation to do some automation...

It would be nice to know we forgot to close a window before bed.

@douglasvb I've been looking at this myself. ZWave or Zigbee devices do what you want, the question is how you monitor them upstream.

@ai6yr I've got zigbee devices already so it would be easy for me to integrate into that framework.

Hadn't thought about using zigbee for this. Thanks!

@douglasvb Looks like the easiest is this (which you could build yourself) with a Zigbee USB dongle.

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