{"id":306,"date":"2024-11-25T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:55:25","slug":"rat-ratgdo-home-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/rat-ratgdo-home-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"rat-ratgdo – Home Assistant."},"content":{"rendered":"

My truck is too long.\u00a0 The Ford website says 20’3″.\u00a0 The space between the front and rear garage doors is 21′ even.\u00a0 That doesn’t leave a lot of margin for error when driving in.<\/p>\n

Enter\u00a0Rat-ratgdo.<\/a> This is a board that can link with Liftmaster\/Chamberlain Security 2.0 garage door openers.\u00a0 It can read the state of the door, sensors, and control the door.\u00a0 With ESPHome firmware, it links easily to HomeAssistant.<\/p>\n

I moved the obstruction sensor for the rear door up to the height of my bumper.\u00a0 When the bumper clears, the rat-ratgdo obstruction sensor switches from “Problem” to “OK”.<\/p>\n

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This allows me to create an automation:<\/p>\n

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When I drive in the back door, a light in the ceiling turns on as soon as I block the obstruction sensors and turns off again when the sensors are clear.\u00a0 If the light doesn’t turn on when I drive in, then I know that HomeAssistant isn’t working so then I just have to look in my rear view mirror and watch the blinking LED of the obstruction sensors which is slightly more error prone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My truck is too long.\u00a0 The Ford website says 20’3″.\u00a0 The space between the front and rear garage doors is 21′ even.\u00a0 That doesn’t leave a lot of margin for error when driving in. Enter\u00a0Rat-ratgdo. This is a board that can link with Liftmaster\/Chamberlain Security 2.0 garage door openers.\u00a0 It can read the state of… Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beer.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}