Adding Gate to HA

[Y'all Qaeda]

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So you're driving, you want to open the gate, so you quickly glance at your webcam, before sending an sms. Sure.

 

[RoganDawes]

So you're driving, you want to open the gate, so you quickly glance at your webcam, before sending an sms. Sure.

I never said I was driving. And that screenshot contains the buttons required to open and close the gate, so there’s no “sending an SMS”, even though that’s what the OP suggested. A silly way to activate things, to be honest!

I have this so that I can let someone in if for some reason I am not home and they need access. For example, my dog has got out and they are bringing him home.

Or even, I’ve gone for a walk, and I didn’t feel like dragging a bunch of keys and a remote, as well as my phone.

 

[furpile]

Hoping someone can walk me through connecting a Sonoss or Shelly to an ET500.

See if you can find a manual for that gate motor. You can use the 12v and gnd pins to power the sonoff or Shelly, and then you need to figure out which pins are used to trigger the gate. On the D5 it is marked Trigger. The output of the sonoff or Shelly will then connect to this pin and usually gnd or common to bridge them out. The sonoff SV you can set to inching mode for 0.5s and it will then act as a dry contact to bridge those pins out for that time and then open.

 

[AfricanTech]

See if you can find a manual for that gate motor. You can use the 12v and gnd pins to power the sonoff or Shelly, and then you need to figure out which pins are used to trigger the gate. On the D5 it is marked Trigger. The output of the sonoff or Shelly will then connect to this pin and usually gnd or common to bridge them out. The sonoff SV you can set to inching mode for 0.5s and it will then act as a dry contact to bridge those pins out for that time and then open.

Thanks - found the manual.



Now, if you could tell me exactly which wires to connect where - I have a Sonoff Basic available - N L on the input side, and L N on the output side.

Input:
N ---> 10?
L ---> 9?

Output:
L ----> ?
N ----> ?

Sonoff

 

[furpile]

Thanks - found the manual.

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Now, if you could tell me exactly which wires to connect where - I have a Sonoff Basic available - N L on the input side, and L N on the output side.

Input:
N ---> 10?
L ---> 9?

Output:
L ----> ?
N ----> ?

Sonoff

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I don't think you can use the Basic as it only works with main voltage (220V). You need the Sonoff SV or the Shelly 1 that can run off 12V DC.

In that case you would need pins 9 and 10 to power the unit with 12VDC.

For the opening of the gate I don't see a trigger input, but at pins 18-20 they talk about using a single channel receiver. Read that section of the manual to see if they show it there, but it should be between NO and COM. Once you know which pins to use you can bridge them out momentarily with a piece of wire to confirm that it opens the gate.

 

[Steamy Tom]

agreed it needs to be a SV. you would bridge 1 and 2 to trigger the gate. bridge them for 1s with a wire or pilars you should see the gate get triggered.

 

[furpile]

Thanks - found the manual.

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Now, if you could tell me exactly which wires to connect where - I have a Sonoff Basic available - N L on the input side, and L N on the output side.

Input:
N ---> 10?
L ---> 9?

Output:
L ----> ?
N ----> ?

Sonoff

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agreed it needs to be a SV. you would bridge 1 and 2 to trigger the gate. bridge them for 1s with a wire or pilars you should see the gate get triggered.

Thanks @Steamy Tom. So I guess BT is for button? Ped is for pedestrian mode so makes sense that they are together.

 

[AfricanTech]

Thanks everyone. I might be able to get a Shelly 1 before the Sonoff SV - a buddy of mine is seeing if he can spare one.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Would you really want to be able to open your gate without having it in sight? Or is it just me?

Think about it the other way around.

You want to know when your gate is opened WHEN you don’t have it in sight.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Think about it the other way around.

You want to know when your gate is opened WHEN you don’t have it in sight.

Does it work that way round? Cause that makes a lot more sense.

 

[Tinuva]

Does it work that way round? Cause that makes a lot more sense.

Thats exactly what I do with open garage doors and open gates, when left open too long at certain hours, we get an alert asking if we want to close or leave open

 

[Steamy Tom]

Thanks @Steamy Tom. So I guess BT is for button? Ped is for pedestrian mode so makes sense that they are together.

correct BT is button

 

[SauRoNZA]

Does it work that way round? Cause that makes a lot more sense.

Status is a status, you can do whatever you like with it.

If I leave the house it immediately triggers to let me know the garage or gate is open.

If it stays open for 15min it alerts me to say it’s open.

If midnight comes and it’s open I get an alert to say it’s still open, which of course only happened once and then I set it up like this just in case and then never happened again but good to know it’s there.

When nobody is home then I get an alert every time it opens.

And if someone calls me and standing at the gate and needs to drop a package it’s pretty painless to just open it and let them in and then close it again after.