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!
Thanks, this looks promising!
You’re welcome…
We do full home automation with high end RTI systems. But sometimes we get requests like yours that would be silly to use expensive automation to do.
Although if you wanted to do so there’s the possibility of using a 2 or 3 button remote to trigger the alert with one of the unused buttons. But that gets expensive by comparison to the remote doorbell solution.