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Smart Gate Automation Options

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  • 03-10-2018 3:26pm
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    Rew
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    Have a sliding automated gate coming in a few weeks and the control options will be radio fobs and hardwired intercom. Id love to have a Ring Doorbell and be able to let in a delivery for example but as far as I can see the only option would be to have the Ring and then a GSM dialer. As anyone seen any smarter gate control options?


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    keane2097
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    I've not read past the title but there might be something of interest in here:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/9l2skk/how_to_automate_any_gate_opener_for_50_including/


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    fergalom
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    You could try a Doorbird and ditch the hardwired intercom.


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    The high horse brigade
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    Home Assistant. https://www.home-assistant.io/
    https://www.home-assistant.io/demo/

    With Home Assistant you can make a sensor out of any home automation gear like Ring video doorbell and use it to trigger anything. I have my Ring doorbell motion detection flickering my Hue lights in the sitting room. My back yard camera motion detection triggers a light (and it would be easy to get Google home to say or play something). I also have a Hue motion sensor sending me a notification of there's movement in the hallway when the router says nobody is at home. It's a blank canvas. You can run it in a raspberry pi.

    How far is the gate from the house? Do you have a switch to open the gate in the house? If so you'd just need something to go across those terminals pulsing closed to open the gate.


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    john_doe.
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    fergalom wrote: »
    You could try a Doorbird and ditch the hardwired intercom.

    Was looking at this myself. Reviews on Amazon aren't great for it.
    This and the Ring elite seems the only Ethernet (and even PoE ) available.


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    Stoner
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    I've mine working on my lightwaverf systems

    The relays are 22 euro and I paralled it to the open button on my phone intercom.

    So "Ok Google Open Gate"works

    I had to add and event

    Open + 3 second delay + close, I call that event for iot reasons


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    fergalom
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    john_doe. wrote: »
    Was looking at this myself. Reviews on Amazon aren't great for it.
    This and the Ring elite seems the only Ethernet (and even PoE ) available.

    Find it excellent, trialled a ring and it was not great.
    Doorbird is ethernet, poe and wifi. Also has an api if so inclined.

    If you dont need video and intercom and only want open/close, then there are many ways to achieve this.


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