I have not had any issues with the Garage Control system.
However, after reading your troubles I tested what you mention and found the following (not sure if it helps you or not.
The QR sticker is what tells the garage that the door is closed. Therefore, if you only open the garage 6 inches, if the QR sticker is still visible to the camera, the system will assume the door is closed, therefore when it triggers your rule to open/close, it will logically run an OPEN command since the QR told it it was closed.
If you want to open the garage 6 inches for your cat and have it close automatically after I got it to work at my home using any of the following 2 optionsâŚ
Create 2 rules, one to run at 10:59 and another to run at 11:00. The 10:59 would see the QR code and open the door. The 11:00 rule would then proceed to close the door.
With the Wyze app open in the garage, go into âaccessoriesâ and recalibrate⌠however, here is the catch⌠when calibrating, it shows the box where the QR code should be visible. You have to place the QR sticker at the very top of this box so that when you open the garage the 6 inches or so, the QR sticker is outside of this box. That way, when your garage is open a bit for your cat, the QR code is not within the reading range and will assume the door is open and therefore would proceed to closing. In my testing, I had to put the QR sticker at the very top of the box and open the garage door a full 12 inches for this to work as you intend.
The problem I think is that you are trying to use the garage door in a way that is not common for the basic consumer. Only opening the door 6 inches is not common and therefore requires uncommon solutions. In my testing I got it working as you want but had to open the garage door about 12 inches (enough for the QR sticker to get outside of the reading range.
Hope this helps as it does solve your situation. However, if it seems like too much work (I got it working in under 10 minutes), you may want to proceed getting a refund.
It seems that the wyze app rules do not have an option to create rules with the garage door opening or closing as the trigger. I see the close door command as an action, but it does not have the Garage door open or closed as a Trigger to create rules based on that.
I then proceeded to use IFTTT and that also limited as it does not have a trigger for âgarage door openâ or âgarage door closedâ.
This limitation does not allow the garage door system to integrate with other wyze smart products.
Example⌠Here is what I want to do.
Create a rule (on wyze app or IFTTT) that is triggered when garage door opens and the action is that a Wyze light switch turns on. This automatically turns on all my garage lights when the garage door opens.
Now we proceed to auto turn off those garage lights (wyze switch) 20 minutes after.
Using IFTTT, create a trigger than when garage door opens, it runs a webhook that delays for 20 minutes. After those 20 minutes are up, it runs the action to turn off wyze switch lights off.
With this basic setup, it allows my garage lights to turn on when garage door is open and they will auto turn off 20 minutes later, regardless if garage door is still open or closed. However, this is currently not possible since there is no trigger for garage door opened or closed in order to create something like this. What are the possibilities for Wyze to create these triggers in the wyze rules and in IFTTT order to achieve this?
P.S.
I tried creating this by using movement detection on the garage camera as the trigger and that managed to get the lights on. However, it FAILS to run the auto turn off the lights after 20 minutes because apparently, the lights turning on/off trigger the movement detection. So when the IFTTT applet runs the turn off command and the lights turn off, the first wyze rule to turn on when movement is detected is triggered and goes into an endless loop where the lights turn off for a second before they turn on again. In short, since the garage door open or garage door closed are not available as triggers, the auto turn on/off wyze switch is impossible without errors or loops. I have not found a solution to this other than the wyze team creating these as triggers, not just as actions.
Who thought a QR code with camera was a good design? Iâve been using Nexx and MyQ with absolutely no issues. Scheduling, Alexa, voice updates on door status (âYour garage door is still openâ. âClosingâ, âYour garage door is closingâ). This is typical reinventing the wheel.
Ditch the Garage Door being open for all neighborhood cats and dogs, or mice and rats that might wander into the garage⌠go with:
(Iâm a fan of cats being indoor only pets for many reasons)
Before I was a fan of indoor cats only, many years ago, I used to leave my bedroom window open to allow my cat free access to and from the outdoors.
This resulted in coming home one day, and as I entered the front door into the dining room area⌠there was about an inch or so of feathery down floating above the floor. I never did find the bird, so Buddy my cat must of consumed his killâŚ
Another time⌠Iâm sitting on the couch with a friend in the living room⌠and out of nowhere, two cats made there way from the open window, under our legs as we sat on the couch on their way to Buddyâs Food and Water bowls in the kitchenâŚ
Thatâs all funny - or unfortunate for the bird. My neighborhood has coyotes with two proven cat kills so I panic if my cat even looks at an open door. But that cat door may be perfect for my sister. Thanks!
