I have an old dry contact garage door opener. I’ve wired it to a nifty ratgdo device to control it with Home Assistant. I ran into an issue with wiring reed switches to report the garage door state (open / closed.) The wires carrying the data would pick up RFI that made my remotes stop working. I never did find a way around this wired issue, so I went wireless and installed a Zigbee door sensor.

I struggled to get Home Assistant to report the state of the door as reported by the sensor. After much reading of documentation I finally got it working! Here is my configuration.yml:

cover:

  – platform: template

    covers:

      east_garage_door:

        device_class: garage

        friendly_name: “East Garage Door”

        unique_id: “east_garage_door”

        value_template: “{{ is_state(‘binary_sensor.east_garage_door_opening’, ‘on’) }}”

        open_cover:

          – action: button.press

            target:

              entity_id: button.east_garage_door_toggle_door

        close_cover:

          – action: button.press

            target:

              entity_id: button.east_garage_door_toggle_door

        stop_cover:

          action: button.press

          target:

            entity_id: button.east_garage_door_toggle_door