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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Duck69 on October 22, 2009, 08:45:10 PM
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Although I have a detached garage & can see the front of it from inside the house.
Today I decided to have GDN without spending any money and using only what I have lying around.
As always I have more stuff than I thought.
For my project I wired a DS10 switch to a PowerFlash set the PF mode to 3 and contact closure (B). Replaced the magnet with a stronger one that gives me a 1¾" gap. Mounted the magnet at the top of the door & the switch on the frame. Plugged in PF. Wired a plug to a miniature christmas tree light & plugged it into the light module. Set House & Unit codes on PF & Light module the same.
When door is open, christmas tree light is on & and when closed light is off.
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......... When door is open, christmas tree light is on & and when closed light is off.
Not so much different from my Garage Door Reminder Macro I've posted it here at the user designed Macros (http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=14721.msg81860#msg81860). Except I use my HA PC (running BVC (http://www.davesdomainonline.com/bvc/bvc.htm)) to announce the door status. And it reminds me [the garage door is open] every ten minutes as long as the door is up. But I use a little lamp too (you can see it in my YouTube Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZF77tsZlI)). I even have the macros as a download (http://davesdomainonline.com/x10/ahpmacro.htm) if you want to look at them.
You won't believe how many times something as simple as garage door notice.. will be used.
I just added an extra feature in my garage (steven r got me started on this). I JUST started to use Occupancy Sensing (http://davesdomainonline.com/os/sensing.htm) to determine if the wifes car is in the garage. It wasn't hard or anything... I used an old IR reflective light beam projector thingy Knightrider sent me.... as well as a powerflash module.