Need the lounge EEs for this one.
Turning our garage door smart with a shelly relay that allows us to open and close garage door via phone and smart home hub(hubitat) by connecting to my garage door button on my wall.
I got the relay working this weekend after chatgpt wrote me some code to use for the driver. And then Gemini bailed it out because chatgpt was making bad assumptions on old data.
My problem is with the enclosure I bought. Like a dumb dumb I didn't check the size of my PSU that's transforming 120v down to 24v and it's likely it's too big or just barely not too big for the enclosure. There are other PSU's out there that are skinnier but they aren't grounded and my industrial manufacturing experience makes me not too keen to use one that isn't grounded. I'm pretty sure they aren't double insulated either(cheap) and that's what the LLMs tell me people use for ungrounded PSUs..
Should I just go with the smaller PSU and bite the bullet?
** Edited by ElbertoHokie at 8/11/2025, 8:54:51 AM
** Edited by ElbertoHokie at 8/11/2025, 8:55:29 AM
Posted: 08/11/2025 at 08:54 AM ET
Thread Replies (21)
Need the lounge EEs for this one.
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-- ElbertoHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 08:54 AM ET
ElbertoHokie
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08/11/25 08:54 AM ET
Some pliers and a set of 30-weight ball bearings should do it. **
-- RoswellGAHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM ET
RoswellGAHokie
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08/11/25 12:41 PM ET
All in all, it's just another button on the wall.**
-- PhotoHokieNC
Aug 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM ET
PhotoHokieNC
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08/11/25 12:11 PM ET
I should have added, we have an old garage door and only one of the remote
-- ElbertoHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 09:48 AM ET
ElbertoHokie
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08/11/25 09:48 AM ET
?, not a fix. Would you use your phone to open the garage as you're coming
-- Late 80s Hokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 09:29 AM ET
Late 80s Hokie
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08/11/25 09:29 AM ET
When we bought the house, there was only one functioning opener.
-- ElbertoHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 09:48 AM ET
ElbertoHokie
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08/11/25 09:48 AM ET
Why not just buy another remote? **
-- vthokieq
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM ET
vthokieq
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08/11/25 10:11 AM ET
Yea. He’s making this so much more difficult than he needs to. **
-- Stork
Aug 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM ET
Stork
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08/11/25 11:01 AM ET
Guess he doesn't want the easiest solution...lol**
-- EDGEMAN
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM ET
EDGEMAN
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08/11/25 10:19 AM ET
Does either your car, or your wife's car have a HomeLink System?
-- EDGEMAN
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM ET
EDGEMAN
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08/11/25 10:09 AM ET
And if your vehicles don't have a HomeLink system, you can buy a...
-- EDGEMAN
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM ET
EDGEMAN
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08/11/25 10:11 AM ET
All of these solutions are silly.
-- ElbertoHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM ET
ElbertoHokie
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08/11/25 10:16 AM ET
Not an EE, but I think all of the the solutions proposed here are easier...
-- MP4VT2004
Aug 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM ET
MP4VT2004
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08/11/25 11:51 AM ET
For sure. I could have bought another remote. But I want to make this
-- ElbertoHokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM ET
ElbertoHokie
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08/11/25 12:26 PM ET
But by using a phone for the remote, won't you have to, as you pull in,
-- Late 80s Hokie
Aug 11, 2025 at 04:30 PM ET
Late 80s Hokie
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08/11/25 04:30 PM ET
We don't play them this year.**
-- EDGEMAN
Aug 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM ET
EDGEMAN
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08/11/25 10:37 AM ET