alanchow Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Overview Chowmain is excited to announce that ratgdo is now Control4 compatible! ratgdo is a WiFi control board for your Chamberlain or Liftmaster garage door opener that works over your local network. It connects to your door opener with three simple wires and works with virtually any residential Chamberlain or Liftmaster manufactured garage door opener. It can control the door and report back the actual status of the door (closed, opening, open, closing). For Security + 2.0 door openers, the obstruction sensors, light, wireless lockout and even motion sensing are also integrated. Driver Features IP Control Light Proxy for Garage Door Light Auto install / Binding of official Control4 proxies for Garage Door, Motion Sensor, IR Beam and Lock drivers. Control Garage Door Open, Garage Door Close, Garage Door Stop, Light On, Light Off, Light Toggle, Wireless Remote Lock, Wireless Remote Unlock, Wireless Remote Toggle Feedback - Garage Door Open, Garage Door Opening, Garage Door Close, Garage Door Closing, Motion Sensing (if wall control panel has motion detector built in), Obstruction (if Obstruction Detector IR/PE Beams installed) Light State, Wireless Remote Lock State Button Bindings - Garage Door Toggle, Garage Door Open, Garage Door Close, Garage Light Toggle, Garage Light On, Garage Light Off, Remote Control Lock Toggle, Remote Control Lock, Remote Control Unlock FAQ Why is this product so exciting? ratgdo is a WiFi control board for your garage door opener that works over your local network. It connects to your door opener with three simple wires. It works with virtually any residential Chamberlain or Liftmaster manufactured garage door opener and also offers basic support for other brands which use dry contacts to control the door. It can control the door and report back the actual status of the door (closed, opening, open, closing). For Security + 2.0 door openers, the obstruction sensors, light, wireless lockout and even motion sensing are also integrated. What garage doors will this work on? Any residential door opener made in the last 25+ years by Chamberlain/Liftmaster should work. If your opener is mounted over head and has a yellow learn button, it is supported by ratgdo hardware v2.0 or greater. If your opener is a wall mounted jackshaft opener or has a red, purple or orange learn button, it is supported by ratgdo hardware v2.5 or greater. Door openers manufactured by the Chamberlain Group have a learn button on them. The color of the learn button can (mostly) tell you which control protocol the opener uses. Residential overhead mounted openers with a yellow learn button are Security + 2.0 with a red, purple or orange learn button are Security + “1.0” Residential wall mounted jackshaft openers With model 8500W or RJ070 are Security + 2.0 All others are Security + 1.0 Security + 2.0 door openers require ratgdo v2.0 control board or later Security + 1.0 & Dry Contact door openers require v2.5 control board or later Many non Chamberlain openers can be controlled with dry contacts, but also require the connection of limit switches to ratgdo in order for it to interpret the door positions (Closed, Opening, Open, Closing) A matrix of known / tested compatible garage doors can be found via link below. ratgdo wiki How does the motion sensors and obstruction sensors work? Motion detection requires a wall control panel with a built in motion detector such as the 889LM. Obstruction Status requires Obstruction Detection Beams be installed. This can be purchased from the garage door manufacturer. The ratgdo driver will automatically install the motion sensor portion and obstruction portions. If these are not available on your product configuration then please delete the motion sensor driver or irbeam driver from your project. What is the remote control lock? This feature allows you to disable the RF remote control from controlling the garage door. This is useful if the car is parked outdoors or if it is loaned out to someone whom the homeowner does not want to give access to the garage to. Help i cannot use my garage door RF remote anymore. You have locked the remote control. Unlock it via the driver or via the ratgdo web server. How do i install ratgdo hardware? Please see link below instructions. Take note that you need to pre-install the ESPHome firmware as per instructions below. ratgdo ESPHome firmware ratgdo Wiring Instructions How does the Control4 driver talk to ratgdo? The driver will communicate to ratgdo via IP. Please ensure that the ratgdo is put on a static or reserved ip address. Where can i purchase ratgdo? This driver is designed to work with ratgdo with the ESPHome firmware installed. You can order the hardware from the following website ratgdo website ratgdo ESPHome firmware Do you offer any other cool drivers? Control4 is a major part of our business. We develop new drivers all the time. You can see all of our drivers on our website (http://www.chowmainsoft.com). Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when new drivers out. I want to try this driver out before buying it? All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 90 day trial. Where can i find out more? You can find out more about the driver from the following link. Driver Product Page RyanE, jimbones and Andrew luecke 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbones Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 This is awesome. Just ordered one. Great work @alanchow and team! Andrew luecke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Just in addition to what Alan has said already (as a few people have asked), this is a local integration which uses control directly via network msgreenf and RyanE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 Driver has been updated with automatic email and push notifications (note 4sight is required). Supports email and push notifications for Garage Door Close Garage Door Open Garage Door Left Open (with a definable time period) Andrew luecke, cnicholson and RyanE 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnicholson Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 14 hours ago, alanchow said: Driver has been updated with automatic email and push notifications (note 4sight is required). Supports email and push notifications for Garage Door Close Garage Door Open Garage Door Left Open (with a definable time period) Awesome. I'm going to try this. I saw in a YouTube video (targeted at Home Assistant users) that the Ratgdo seems to track percentage open and you can open to any percentage of open. Does your driver support this? My use case is that I have a "whole house" exhaust fan in one of my garages and I would like to programatically crack the garage door open a bit and run exhaust fans during summer in certain situations. Andrew luecke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 48 minutes ago, cnicholson said: Awesome. I'm going to try this. I saw in a YouTube video (targeted at Home Assistant users) that the Ratgdo seems to track percentage open and you can open to any percentage of open. Does your driver support this? My use case is that I have a "whole house" exhaust fan in one of my garages and I would like to programatically crack the garage door open a bit and run exhaust fans during summer in certain situations. We do track the percentage however we only utilise that for feedback so that you do not need to install a reed swirch. The driver does not support setting the door to a specific position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 On 2/13/2024 at 5:18 AM, cnicholson said: Awesome. I'm going to try this. I saw in a YouTube video (targeted at Home Assistant users) that the Ratgdo seems to track percentage open and you can open to any percentage of open. Does your driver support this? My use case is that I have a "whole house" exhaust fan in one of my garages and I would like to programatically crack the garage door open a bit and run exhaust fans during summer in certain situations. I managed to figure out how to do the percentage open functionality. Have implemented it as a one way command in the driver's commands. This is so that i don't break the existing native Control4 garage door opener user experience that we have tied into. Have also implemented discrete open and close functionality as well for supported models. Please test this out in ESPHome first to ensure you have discrete open and close before implementing in Control4. cnicholson and Andrew luecke 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YseanY Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 @alanchow Does the light proxy work with Liftmaster's 823LM Remote Light Switch? This syncs with the garage opener, when the garage door opens, the light turns on. Also works with the wall control motion sensor and light button. https://www.liftmaster.com/searchResult#q=823LM&tab=manuals&numberOfResults=20:~:text=LiftMaster Models 823LM / 825LM Product Guide - English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted February 29 Author Share Posted February 29 5 hours ago, YseanY said: @alanchow Does the light proxy work with Liftmaster's 823LM Remote Light Switch? This syncs with the garage opener, when the garage door opens, the light turns on. Also works with the wall control motion sensor and light button. https://www.liftmaster.com/searchResult#q=823LM&tab=manuals&numberOfResults=20:~:text=LiftMaster Models 823LM / 825LM Product Guide - English Good question. I don't have an answer to this. We implemented the light on ratgdo's ESPHome firmware. You should reach out to Paul from ratgdo to see how the light works for remote light switches. Personally though i would just use any Control4 integrated light switch and get the ratgdo driver to turn the light on and off. Feedback is instant so it'll work nicely. Andrew luecke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 @alanchow I have a question sir. When running multiple doors, is there a way to have an icon that's a "master" that reflects the state and controls all the doors? Basically, if I have 3 doors, and 3 drivers, is there a way to have a "Garage Door All" Icon that when pressed opens or closes all the doors, something like that. I could do a custom button, but I'd really like a Garage Door driver type scenario where you can press it and all the doors track. I'm hitting a wall as I don't have enough bindings to really get this functionality. Thanks sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 2 hours ago, neil12011 said: @alanchow I have a question sir. When running multiple doors, is there a way to have an icon that's a "master" that reflects the state and controls all the doors? Basically, if I have 3 doors, and 3 drivers, is there a way to have a "Garage Door All" Icon that when pressed opens or closes all the doors, something like that. I could do a custom button, but I'd really like a Garage Door driver type scenario where you can press it and all the doors track. I'm hitting a wall as I don't have enough bindings to really get this functionality. Thanks sir! Unfortunately you can't have a single driver that tracks and controls multiple doors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Unfortunately you can't have a single driver that tracks and controls multiple doors Thank you. You get where I’m going with this right sir? There are door lock consolidator drivers, would be cool for multiple bay garage doors!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 ...or a virtual Sensor driver. Attach virtual Sensor to a standard garage door driver to provide status. Run a macro when any door opens, if all closed set virtual sensor to closed, if any open set to open If Garage All is open when tapped, run macro close doors (if door 1 open close, if door 2 open close etc) Can be done using an actual relay and contact input. Use the relay to set the 'sensor' through programming. Would be preferable not to loose 2 IO. neil12011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 14 minutes ago, RAV said: ...or a virtual Sensor driver. Attach virtual Sensor to a standard garage door driver to provide status. Run a macro when any door opens, if all closed set virtual sensor to closed, if any open set to open If Garage All is open when tapped, run macro close doors (if door 1 open close, if door 2 open close etc) Can be done using an actual relay and contact input. Use the relay to set the 'sensor' through programming. Would be preferable not to loose 2 IO. I'm not sure it will let me bind to multiple sensors that way. The RATGDO has fully closed/open sensor bindings, I don't think I can double them up like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 New version released to assist with UL 325 compliance. Version 20240320 - 20-MAR-2024 Added functionality to comply with UL 325 safety standard compliance Adjustable pre-movement event timer Fires event before movement for custom programming Automatically flashes light before movement Automatically fires announcement before movement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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