Smart Gate Automation Options

Rew

Have a sliding automated gate coming in a few weeks and the control options will be radio fobs and hardwired intercom. Id love to have a Ring Doorbell and be able to let in a delivery for example but as far as I can see the only option would be to have the Ring and then a GSM dialer. As anyone seen any smarter gate control options?

keane2097

I've not read past the title but there might be something of interest in here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/9l2skk/how_to_automate_any_gate_opener_for_50_including/

fergalom

You could try a Doorbird and ditch the hardwired intercom.

The high horse brigade

Home Assistant. https://www.home-assistant.io/
https://www.home-assistant.io/demo/

With Home Assistant you can make a sensor out of any home automation gear like Ring video doorbell and use it to trigger anything. I have my Ring doorbell motion detection flickering my Hue lights in the sitting room. My back yard camera motion detection triggers a light (and it would be easy to get Google home to say or play something). I also have a Hue motion sensor sending me a notification of there's movement in the hallway when the router says nobody is at home. It's a blank canvas. You can run it in a raspberry pi.

How far is the gate from the house? Do you have a switch to open the gate in the house? If so you'd just need something to go across those terminals pulsing closed to open the gate.

john_doe.

fergalom wrote: »

You could try a Doorbird and ditch the hardwired intercom.

Was looking at this myself. Reviews on Amazon aren't great for it.
This and the Ring elite seems the only Ethernet (and even PoE ) available.

Stoner

I've mine working on my lightwaverf systems

The relays are 22 euro and I paralled it to the open button on my phone intercom.

So "Ok Google Open Gate"works

I had to add and event

Open + 3 second delay + close, I call that event for iot reasons

fergalom

john_doe. wrote: »

Was looking at this myself. Reviews on Amazon aren't great for it.
This and the Ring elite seems the only Ethernet (and even PoE ) available.

Find it excellent, trialled a ring and it was not great.
Doorbird is ethernet, poe and wifi. Also has an api if so inclined.

If you dont need video and intercom and only want open/close, then there are many ways to achieve this.