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A project log for WeMo Garage Door Opener

Connect a Belkin WeMo device to your garage door to allow open/close remotely, tracking door status, and integration with IFTTT

cdhcdh 08/22/2014 at 13:140 Comments

Note: When you first turn on the Arduino/Wemo system, it takes the Wemo time to crank up, attach to WIFI, etc. The Arduino starts up much faster, of course. But because of this, on startup (or a couple of minutes after), the system may be out of sync in that the WeMo and the state of the garage door are not properly matched. Simpy opening or closing the garage door once will sync things up. I can't think of a good way to fix this issue as I would love to sync everything when the Arduino starts up but I can't since the WeMo takes so long to start up. I could just put a silly delay in the Arduino start up code and maybe this is the best solution. then after the delay run the normal "sync" operation in the Arduino code (which is already there) and things will be happy.

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