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Help with Ratgdo Installation - Webconsole reachable, however through interface Door will Not Open and Close
Hi and thank you to all that can help.
I'm currently have the ratgdo board 2.52i board which took about 60 days to arrive. I consulted the documentation and it actually seemed pretty straightforward after reading it and watching a few videos on line.
I flashed the device with esphome (I'm open to flashing with the Mosquitto Broker version however when I initially tried it kind of got stuck and hung up during the installation). Anyway I able to reach the devices webserver at 10.0.20.20 which is on the same subnet (10.0.20.0/255) as my home assistant Hass OS. I'm able to interact with the device through the webconsole -- reboot, see error log etc.
My problem is the device will not work to open and close the door, however the door will open and close via the traditional methods of either using the wall switch, remote button opener, or MyQ.
The diagram I followed for the 2.52 device is here https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4663918/288449523-9ddf3da2-9eac-4be0-beed-11867dc8d446.png. I didn't wire for the optional dry contacts since mine are wet based
Pictures of my setup are here are below after the post.
After reconnecting things I'm able to reach the device at 10.0.20.20 through its webconsole. I'm getting warnings which I think likely mean something isn't working (I pasted a picture below since cutting and pasting not working).
I'm a little confused at this point how to troubleshoot. Reflash??
In homeassistant I'm also getting errors:
Failed to communicate with garage opener on startup; Check the ratgdov2.5i 18fd5d Rolling code counter number entity history and set the entity to one number larger than the largest value in history. ESPHome devices
Reference provided here:https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/03_wiring.html
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Do you know what security+ version that opener uses? I believe the ESPHome fork only supports 2.0.
Also make sure you've sufficiently stripped the wires and inserted them fully.
Hey thanks for help. My opener is about 13 years old. I flashed both the ESPHome and Latest MQTT version -- both flashed -- but wouldn't operate the door. I ended up flashing on a whim the 1.0+ MQTT version and that did the trick. I'm aware on the ratgdo website the author did a pretty good job at describing colors of the learn button to hopefully differentiate the security versions. My button was black (or maybe grey -- you can see it in the picture above -- not really sure what color that is!!) so I just started trying a different version on a whim. Actually preferred the ESPHome interface over the MQTT interface in terms of built in web server on the device itself displaying logs and such over the MQTT version, however for for what it's worth just glad the device seems to be working. Shout out to program known as MQTT-Explorer - https://mqtt-explorer.com/ - for helping with the debug process.