Konnected Garage Door Relay

Power trigger side of the relay.

Konnected garage door relay.

One thing many of us use everyday are garage door openers. Connecting to the garage door. Now if your activate the switch it triggers the relay as it s supposed to 500ms pulse and the door activates. Most of the relays that we sell at konnected are low trigger relays.

And most garage doors can be upgraded fairly easily. The red one pictured above can be a high or low level relay. For instance for a garage door you just need to briefly close the circuit to actuate the garage door motor. But that s not the only thing it can do.

The gear in the top right corner of the things properties in the smartthings app. Briefly touch the wires together. Integrating an older garage door opener into your smarthome can provide convenience and security. Out pin or any zone 1 5 goes to in on the relay.

There is dedicated 12v switch output for alarms. Wire relay to board power connect the 5v on the board to vcc on relay female to female jumper ground connect gnd next to 5v on the board to the g on the relay female to female control connect pin to in on relay repeat if using multiple relays. On most older openers they are labelled 1 2. This should start the garage door movement.

Find the switched outputs for the garage door opener. Important notes for konnected and relays with the production boards you don t need a relay anymore for an alarm. If you want to use konnected to control a garage door opener sprinkler system or turn on off something that has a separate voltage source you use a relay module. Make sure you change that setting in the thing configuration.

If you want to test if they are the correct wires attach a wire each contact. Konnected is a platform to take legacy wired security systems and turn them smart.