GDO & Home Assistant - One GDO Status Inconsistent With Others

Konnected Garage Door Opener
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I have three White GDOs.
All work just fine in Hubitat.
Added the Home-Assistant Bridge the other day and added all devices in the Maker API instance. One of the GDO’s reports a different status of some kind in HA, but I see no difference in configuration with the other 2. Here is what I see in HA.

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As you can see GDO#1 shows the switch indicator as off, the others show it as on. If I toggle the switch (just to see) it goes to on and then immediately to off again. I can activate GDO#1 in HA, it responds and the Hubitat dashboard shows the action.
So all three GDOs work fine in Hubitat and it seems the bridge works fine too.

So, what does that silly switch represent? It seems to do no harm.

Thanks.

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Rather than making your garage door openers available to Home Assistant through the Maker API you can add them directly to both hubs if you want. The switch is supposed to control the strobe/siren output on the GDO white however it just always shows “on” in my Hubitat (I’m guessing there is a small issue with the Hubitat driver but I never really found a use for the strobe anyway), but in Home Assistant with it added directly to HA that switch controls the strobe I hooked up to it.

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Thanks!

I’ll have to try that out from the garage so I can see the strobe. I’ve only “switched” it from my office, so I saw nothing.

I did not know the GDO could be “dual homed”, I have found by accident and error that the Konnected Pro cannot, for now.

I’ll think about your suggestion for a while. I’m just going to work with what I’ve got now.

Folks on the HA side made other suggestions about having multiple Maker API instances with select devices on each.

Hubitat and Konnected have worked well for me. HA is an experiment.

Cheers!

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I used Raspberry Pi Connect on my iPad to activate the HA dashboard to activate the subject GDO TBD function switch.

For GDO #2 the switch turned off then immediately back on, the LED did not flash.
For GDO #1 the switch was turned on (it went immediately back off), the LED did not flash.
Maybe it only works on a wired external strobe which I do not have.

Very happy to be running Bookworm.

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The switch only switches the 12v output ports I believe, and I haven’t seen it work from Hubitat but works fine from Home Assistant so I think there is an issue with the Hubitat driver, I checked today and saw there was a v2 driver but after updating the device to use that version the switch still doesn’t do anything from the Hubitat side and the logs just show it retrying multiple times before it gives up.

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Wow, thanks for checking up on that. Explains the results nicely.

HA is still an experiment/trial for me. First impressions, possibly due to hosting HA under Pi Bookworm were negative, but once I found good instructions to install it, it is running just fine. I like it too.

I better understand the way some folks are negative on Hubitat. I started my alarm conversion using the Konnected Pro 4 years ago. The Hubitat quickly gave me a complete replacement alarm and still does all I have needed and may need.

HA is an expansion of capabilities. For the foreseeable future I’ll be keeping the Hubitat owning all radio devices. The networked Konnected Pro and the GDOs all work fine as it is. The 12V switch thing weirdness in HA display aside.

What started me on the HA end was an email from Nate (as I recall) noting that the Konnected Pro will soon/now be able to work standalone with HA. No plans to do that, but having options is good.

Thanks.
Have a great and Happy Thanksgiving. To all.