Great Video; I could not get serial data to work, so I gave up and left it off for the last 3 months; today, I fired it back up, installed the new firmware and had the same issue; I can't sync open/close status. Then I watched this video, I had unplug the garage door opening, what the!! I plugged my GDO terminal into port 1, which was worse, then moved back to port 0 and no more errors, The sync status was successful! FIXED IT. Thanks for taking the time to record this; sometimes it the little stupid stuff that fixes things :(
And I thought that integrating Nest into Home Assistant was hard haha. I have an old pc running a proxmox server with HomeAssistant on one of those Containers. Mainly looking for the ability to have the doors shut themselves after x minutes of being open, and turning on the leds with motion past the panel. I could buy the smart panel to do that, or a raspberry pi to do this. This is more flexible, but requires the wiring. You think itd be worth it over the two smart panels?
From my personal perspective I would say yes - it is worth integrating it with Home Assistant. You have so many more possibilities when integrating with Home Assistant. You can control the garage door from your car, you can automate it (e.g. automatically close it at a certain time at night in case one forget to close it), you can play with automatically turning on/off the LEDs based upon motion sensors or other triggers etc.
Thanks! I went ahead and ordered a system tonight. I now see it's just sold as that and much less wiring than when i first skimmed through some readings and videos. One thing I was wondering is how well an independent sensor would work in Home assistant to turn the GDO lights on. I don't have a smart panel like the 880LMW, but the github page says it only supports motion with one of those that have it built in. I do have some unused wyze motion sensors from a couple years ago that I could use though @@the_smart_home_maker
I would say it depends on your preferences and your use case. If you want to integrate with Home Assistant, I would say ESPHome is much simpler as it natively integrates with Home Assistant and also allows to easily perform firmware updates via the Home Assistant user interface. But if you are already integrating all of your devices rather via MQTT or you are using another smart home platform (not Home Assistant), MQTT is surely the way to go as it is not specifically tailored around Home Assistant.
