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Old 01-10-18, 08:53 AM   #4
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I have the new garage door opener gadget installed and working.
There were some problems with the relay. It seemed to be sticking 'Closed'..
Not sure about this, but I believe the WiFi command may have been coming too fast for the little CPU.
Using the speech output as a delay seemed a little erratic. The speech delay may have caused the 'stuck relay' bug..
So, I moved the speech output near the bottom of the Routine stack, as a completion signal.

For a time delay, I switched on & off the unused relay 4. It seems to work fine now.
At the bottom of the Routine scrip, I added one last 'Open' function, for safety.

My wife was smiling this morning when she used our code words to open the garage.
We decided not to use "Alexa Open Garage Door", since I like to watch YouTube videos that sometimes tend to command Alexa to open things..

(If the on-off commands seem strange, that's due to the relay requirement of a '0', to close their NO contacts. Negative Logic).
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