Notification of open garage door
I know there's a night mode that automatically closes an open garage door after a specified amount of time, but there are times when I would prefer to just know that the garage door has been open for a specified number of minutes (i.e., without auto-closing). This would be useful, for example, for times when I may have forgotten to close the door during the day, but without the auto-close, it allows for when I intentionally left it open like if I'm working on my car in the garage. This way, with the notification, I can be reminded to manually close the door if I didn't intend to leave it open.
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Ron,
We agree. This feature will be released shortly :)
Scott
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This is definitely a great idea; glad to see it's getting implemented.
If I may piggyback on the notifications thing, I would also love to have the ability to only receive a notification when the door auto-closes. I've turned off notifications for now because I don't need or want to receive a notification every single time the door opens and closes, but it would be good to be able to receive a confirmation that the door auto-closed.
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Bump on this suggestion. It's probably the single most important feature update for me. Our garage doors open to our back yard so we often leave them open during the day, and occasionally we forget to close them. Or, like last night, there was a toy blocking the door and I didn't wait to see it close all the way before I walked away 🥴
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Hi Scott,
I have Night Mode disabled. I had an issue a while back where a garage door opened in the middle of the night and set off the alarm (very "alarming" of course). We never figured out a root cause, but one identified possibility was Tailwind thought the door was open during Night hours, even though it was closed, and tried to close it (thereby opening it). To be safe, I disabled Night Mode. I was already hesitant about using it because it's not uncommon for a bike or toy or whatever to be left blocking the doors, so auto-close is problematic.
I generally turn our alarm on at night, but not always. If I set the alarm, it lets me know I have a door open so I'm reminded to close them. For the nights when I don't set the alarm and have forgotten to close a door, I'd love an alert from Tailwind at a set time.
To be specific, I'd love either:
- Night Mode: change auto-close to a toggle. If a door is open during night hours, display a persistent (non-dismissible) notification. If auto-close is enabled and successfully auto-closes door, remove persistent notification and add standard "Night Mode closed the door" notification. (this is my preference)
- Notification Settings: Add "notify me if any doors are left open" option to allow either notification after open duration exceeded (as current) or at specific trigger time (e.g. 9pm) that sends a notification if the doors are open at the trigger time.
Thanks!
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I use two tailwind devices, one for each driveway gate.
the gates should auto close on a timer after 20 seconds
I wired the tailwind to the "fire department" exit/open contacts, which will only open (and keep the gate open as long as the contact is closed), since I never want tailwind to close the gate.
however, sometimes the electric eye sensor is blocked by mist/dew and the gate stays open.
it would be very useful to get repeated notifications (interval set by the user) as long as the gate is still open, as I often miss a single notification...
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Tailwind sends multiple notifications if a door / gate is left open, and then stops so we don't bother the user further. We've had a few requests to change to "keep bugging me until I tell you to stop", but not many so far. I can +1 your request and if enough users request it, it will get bumped up on our development roadmap :)
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