homebridge-aladdin-connect-garage-door

Homebridge plugin that supports Genie Aladdin garage door opener.
This plugin is not affiliated with the Genie company.

This plugin is a combo of:

• https://github.com/apexad/homebridge-garagedoor-command
• https://github.com/apexad/node-aladdin-connect-garage-door

Mainly, so you can put username and password into your homebridge config, rather than hardcoding them into javascript, or devising a system to pass them on through docker secrets (I've done both). Also, homebridge won't be forking a shell and an extra node process every time it needs to issue a command, which (considering the state monitoring every 15 seconds) saves quite a lot of CPU cycles.

Configuration

This easiest way to use this plugin is to use homebridge-config-ui-x.
To configure manually, add to the accessories section of Homebridge's config.json after installing the plugin.

Config:

"accessories": [
  {
    "accessory": "AladdinConnectGarageDoorOpener",
    "name": "Garage Door",
    "username": "",
    "password": "",
    "status_update_delay": 15,
    "poll_state_delay": 20,
    "device_number": 0,
    "garage_number": 1,
    "battery_low_level": 15,
    "ignore_errors": true,
    "log_polling": false,
    "allow_debug": false
  }
]

Explanation:

Note:

I was unable to get proper response from the API when I used a secondary (invited) Aladdin Connect credentials. As a workaround, I had to use the primary login credentials instead. I advise you do the same.

The ignore_errors config option is in place to prevent false OPEN events from occuring if the aladdin connect API fails to respond. Events where STOPPED is replaced with CLOSED are logged, but consider this a word of caution that setting this option to true ignores errors and could incorrectly report your garage door as CLOSED when it is not.