Garadget Cover

The garadget cover platform lets you control Garadget garage door futurizers through Home Assistant.

Configuration

To enable Garadget Covers in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
cover:
  - platform: garadget
    covers:
      190028001947343412342341:
        username: YOUR_USERNAME
        password: YOUR_PASSWORD
      4c003f001151353432134214:
        access_token: df4cc785ff818f2b01396c44142342fccdef

Configuration Variables

covers

(list)(Required)List of your doors.

device

(string)(Required)This is the device id from your Garadget portal.

username

(string)(Required)Your Garadget account username.

password

(string)(Required)Your Garadget account password.

access_token

(string)(Required)A generated access_token from your Garadget account.

name

(string)(Optional)me to use in the frontend, will use name configured in Garadget otherwise.

Default value: Garadget

If provided, the access_token will be used, otherwise the username and password will be used to automatically generate an access token at start time.

Example

# Related configuration.yaml entry
cover:
  - platform: garadget
    covers:
      190028001947343412342341:
        access_token: !secret garadget_access_token
        name: Garage door

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      garage_door_status:
        friendly_name: 'State of the door'
        value_template: '{{ states.cover.garage_door.state }}'
      garage_door_time_in_state:
        friendly_name: 'Since'
        value_template: '{{ states.cover.garage_door.attributes.time_in_state }}'
      garage_door_wifi_signal_strength:
        friendly_name: 'WiFi strength'
        value_template: '{{ states.cover.garage_door.attributes.wifi_signal_strength }}'
        unit_of_measurement: 'dB'

group:
  garage_door:
    name: Garage door
    entities:
      - cover.garage_door
      - sensor.garage_door_status
      - sensor.garage_door_time_in_state
      - sensor.garage_door_wifi_signal_strength

customize:
  sensor.garage_door_time_in_state:
    icon: mdi:timer-sand
  sensor.garage_door_wifi_signal_strength:
    icon: mdi:wifi

Some of the Garadget sensors can create a lot of clutter in the logbook. Use this section of code in your configuration.yaml to exclude those entries.

logbook:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.garage_door_time_in_state
      - sensor.garage_door_wifi_signal_strength

As of firmware release 1.17 the garadget device has native support for MQTT. The options allow the end-user to configure the device in the following ways ‘cloud only’, ‘cloud and MQTT’ or ‘MQTT only’.

For configuration of the garadget as a MQTT cover:

cover:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Garage Door"
    command_topic: "garadget/device_name/command"
    state_topic: "garadget/device_name/status"
    payload_open: "open"
    payload_close: "close"