Automate Opening your Garage with the USL Relay (Full Setup)

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• VW

  @vwestTube · 1 month ago

  You can find 12 to 24 V in the garage opener, no need for a separate power supply…

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• NE

  @NetRanger1967 · 2 weeks ago

  Great video, Tim! I’ve just installed a UniFi Relay to control both of my Hörmann SupraMatic Gen 3 garage door openers, and the solution works perfectly. <br>The installation was very straightforward, as the garage door openers provide a 24V output that can be used to power the UniFi Relay directly. It makes for a very clean and simple setup!<br>It would be great, though, to have the possibility of integrating door position sensors, so that the actual open/closed status of the garage door could be monitored directly in UniFi.

• BI

  @bigboy_6220 · 1 month ago

  Very nice - thx for the setup walkthrough - being considering giving this a try.

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• LO

  @LoweredZ06 · 3 months ago

  Just as a FYI, if your home network is VLAN&apos;d like mine. &nbsp;You want the SuperLink Gateway device on your &quot;Protect&quot; VLAN. &nbsp;I originally tried to put my SuperLink on my IOT network and it wouldn&apos;t connect/function(although it powered up). &nbsp;As soon as I put it on my &quot;Protect&quot; VLAN, it instantly came online, downloaded updates, link turned from white to blue, and the relay was detected(which it couldn&apos;t detect before).

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• CZ

  @czech37 · 2 months ago

  Highly highly highly recommend putting a small surge protector on the outlet supplying power to your garage door opener. We had a lightning storm last year that completely fried our opener.

• NI

  @nickhannay8401 · 3 months ago

  I’ve used line crossing &nbsp;to give me directional opening.

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• AA

  @aaronuws · 3 months ago

  Sadly in my state we don&apos;t have front plates on our vehicles. But it&apos;s nice to see how the set up works, as I can see options that could work well with this. We don&apos;t always park in the garage, but if I didI could add a camera along our long driveway to open a gate. I would just dread running a wire through the basement and down the hill across the lawn to reach the driveway on the far side of the creek. Definitely a future project idea. Thanks for this video, I&apos;m glad I found it!

• DR

  @drewmn · 4 weeks ago

  I dunno. Ratgdo seems like pretty solid alternative plus it can read various garage door states.

• JE

  @jerkychew899 · 1 month ago

  This is cool but I gather from watching that this doesn&apos;t have any sense of whether the door is open or shut, right? It just says &quot;See license plate, send signal&quot;, so if the door was already open it would close as you were pulling into the driveway, correct? It also wouldn&apos;t know if the door failed to close successfully. <br><br>My MyQ devices include an accelerometer mounted to each garage door, so it always knows the relative position of the door. It would be interesting if Ubiquiti offered such a device.

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• JA

  @jamestiller · 3 months ago

  I liked this buddy, and I am with you on the myQ setup. good physical garage door opener but the tech side of it, very very basic, for me at least.

• SL

  @Slick1020 · 3 months ago

  First neighborhood where everyone takes care of their lawns. Now you need a robotic mower so you can watch it with all those cameras like I do.

• PU

  @punchtool2920 · 3 months ago

  Without the cameras you need to use the protect app. No widgets for iOS protect app. Also if you have a 2.0 security door, you will need an extra device like the Garadget wired dry contact adapter. In my case I soldered leads to a spare remote control buttons and connected to relay 1&amp;2. This works okay. &nbsp;Sometimes it takes 3 taps in the protect app to open the door after a long gap between use. Also you have no position sensor. &nbsp;Thanks for the video!