Using Arduino to report status of my garage door to Home Assistant
A while ago (now reading the post, it is more than 3 years ago 😮), I was working on a project to get notified every time the garage door opens or closes. You can read all about it here . Coming back to that project, I think the solution was/is far from ideal and too complicated. Now that I started to use Home Assistant to make my not so smart home a little smarter, I figured there must be a better way to be able to check if the garage door is still open and to get notified if the garage door opens or closes. The new solution might look like this: There are a few questions here. How can I let an arduino integrate with Home Assistant? How can I let Home Assistant (based on some state change) notify us of this change, via mail for example? Next to that, I will need some setup and electronics so we can read the state of a switch or sensor. Electronics As already mentioned in the other post, I have an MKR WiFi 1010 board. Since I am lazy, I also bought a relay shield . ...