Garage is open?

[hensed]

I have a new garage controller that uses ESPHome, so I created a virtual on/off device to add the garage door to HomeKit. The issue is, when I add the garage door, it's begins its life as the opposite of the actual state. If the garage is open, homekit says it's closed and vice versa. I cannot for the life of me get it to sync. There is no option to inverse for garage door. If I set it as just a light switch it reports correctly. What should I do to get that to work properly with the homekit garage device?

[GlennNZ]

Essentially you are using multiple devices - ESPHome, Virtual Device and then into Homekit.

You need to reverse the logic for open/closed given this is the Apple HomeKit Standard.

See this earlier post and reply

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[hensed]

Essentially you are using multiple devices - ESPHome, Virtual Device and then into Homekit.

You need to reverse the logic for open/closed given this is the Apple HomeKit Standard.

See this earlier post and reply

viewtopic.php?t=27288&sid=9f9c1c6da9bbb ... 4498e3bb4b


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Gotcha! Will-do. Thanks!

[durosity]

On a side note, @PapaMac has made a wonderful Virtual Garage Door plugin which very handy:

https://github.com/papamac/VirtualGarageDoor

It lets you have a sensor for it being open, and another for it being closed, and set a timer for how long the operation should take to complete, then if it gets jammed or obstructed it'll set an appropriate status in HomeKit to warn you! It can also execute action groups based on triggers too.. makes everything nice and neat, and you can also set it to being locked to stop it from being allowed to be opened!

[hensed]

On a side note, @PapaMac has made a wonderful Virtual Garage Door plugin which very handy:

https://github.com/papamac/VirtualGarageDoor

It lets you have a sensor for it being open, and another for it being closed, and set a timer for how long the operation should take to complete, then if it gets jammed or obstructed it'll set an appropriate status in HomeKit to warn you! It can also execute action groups based on triggers too.. makes everything nice and neat, and you can also set it to being locked to stop it from being allowed to be opened!

I have been trying to use the VGD plugin, but not having great success. It does not support ESPHome switches/sensors, so I have been trying to wrestle with different settings to get things working in VGD & homekit. no luck yet

[durosity]

Ah I’m not currently using esp32 (weird setup issue and kinda just had to take a step back for my mental health before it broke me!) so can’t test that out I’m afraid. I’d usually say ask Papamac but I know he’s got some other stuff on at the moment so he probably won’t be able to get back to you for a while.