Complete noob here and maybe this isn’t “home automation” so I apologize in advance.
I have a specific use case: I need to be able to alert anyone inside my garage that it’s about to be opened, with time to get out of the way. I want someone driving up to be able to ring a sound inside the garage before opening the garage door from the car. (if it could be one action: hit the remote, bell rings, pause, then door opens, that would be ideal)
No amount of googling search terms has yet returned any useful results, unfortunately. I am open to using something like Alexa or Siri to make the sound/action if I could find the ringer needed.
My garage door opener is Chamberlain, but I don’t have MyQ installed - I don’t find that it has any ringer/bell function anyway. Maybe I just don’t know the right lingo for this? Thanks for any ideas and guidance!
many garage door openers will flash the interior light whenever the door is ready to open.
If you need this to be audible (for the blind?) then there has to be a light socket screw in that a noise maker could be used. I have seen light socket to plug adapters. Then plug to noise maker.