Now when someone opens closes your door you get notified via email watch the video at the beginning of this project for a live demonstration.
Garage door status switch.
This would make a simple wifi device that could be used on items such as a garage door opener.
Now follow the schematics below to create your door status monitor.
The doorbell switch now activates the garage door opener and the light comes on when the door opens whole thing runs off the existing door bell transformer using repurposed 4 conductor telephone corded.
Good luck with your project.
It only send an rf pulse in the moment the sensor goes from closed to opened.
I have 2 of these modified switches one by the front door and one by the rear allowing me to open and monitor the garage door from either spot.
The rf sonoff door sensor will not help you knwo the status of the garage door.
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Whether for convenience or security your smart phone and tablet allow you to control your garage door.
For prototyping testing you can apply the magnetic reed switch to your door using velcro.
When the insteon garage control status kit is used with the insteon hub you will always know whether you forgot to close the garage door.
A new product that would be very useful would be an inching self locking wifi wireless switch with 2 leads that could be connected to something such as a reed switch that would report back the status as being open or closed.
I use a itching self locking wifi wireless switch now to control my opener.