Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Use a remote while inside car to ring a bell in the garage? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Complete noob here and maybe this isn't "home automation" so I apologize in advance.

I have a specific use case: I need to be able to alert anyone inside my garage that it's about to be opened, with time to get out of the way. I want someone driving up to be able to ring a sound inside the garage before opening the garage door from the car. (if it could be one action: hit the remote, bell rings, pause, then door opens, that would be ideal)

No amount of googling search terms has yet returned any useful results, unfortunately. I am open to using something like Alexa or Siri to make the sound/action if I could find the ringer needed.

My garage door opener is Chamberlain, but I don't have MyQ installed - I don't find that it has any ringer/bell function anyway. Maybe I just don't know the right lingo for this? Thanks for any ideas and guidance!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you have a z-wave hub, then there are z-wave key fobs you could use to trigger a routine to flash lights, start a chime, or any other smart device.