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!

  • cornellrwilliams@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    What is the model of your garage door opener?

    The easiest solution is to use a relay. With the Zen17 I can press a button and open the garage and sound a siren at the same time.