Smartthings Garage Door Sensor Not Working

It is possible that through vibration the wire connection to the garage door opener may have worked loose over a year.

Smartthings garage door sensor not working.

In looking at the works with smartthings page it seems that there isn t an opener that inherently connects to smartthings as there are only 2 add on devices that connect to it gocontrol and iris. Mount the garage door sensor vertically so that when the garage door is vertical it will read closed when horizontal it will read open to mount the multipurpose sensor in the correct orientation. Take take in between the manual open close and then trying to do it with the app. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Check the wires ensure they are connected nicely and then open close manually and then check open close from the app. It looks like my current garage door opener is failing and as i replace it i would like to get something that works with smartthings. 1 out of 3 found this helpful. The problem is sometimes the sensors don t seem to change status from open close.

Just purchased smartthings hub v2 and 4 multi sensors. Was this article helpful. Set aside the smaller magnet portion of the sensor not needed for sensing garage door status orient the main sensor vertically with. Can t seem to get the checking to work although i can turn on the light with other automations.

My hunch is an automation triggers only on a change. Make sure you have the flat larger face of the sensor mounted on the door vertically without the magnetic contact.