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Extra Wired Sensor on the GDO White

How to add an extra auxiliary wired contact or motion sensor to the GDO White

If not used for a wired sensor on the garage door, the INPUT terminals on the GDO White can be used to monitor an extra wired sensor in the garage. The extra sensor will appear as a separate device or entity in the smart home app, and isn't used to determine the state of the garage door. Some use cases are:

  • Add a motion sensor to the garage.
  • Add a push button to the garage to trigger some automation.
  • Add a wired contact sensor for a door or cabinet.

Wiring an Extra Sensor

Contact Sensor

  1. Connect one side of the contact sensor loop to each side of the INPUT terminals on the GDO White

Powered Sensor

A 12V power sensor, like a PIR motion sensor or glass-break sensor, can be powered from the AUX +/- terminals. Connect the red (+) wire to AUX+ and black (- or 0v) to AUX-.

Connect the signal wire pair as above in Contact Sensor.

Enabling the Extra Sensor

Using the Konnected App

  1. Screenshot_20250929_160656_KonnectedFrom My Devices, tap on your GDO White and tap Settings > Extra Input / Output
  2. Tap on Input Function and select Open/Close Sensor
  3. Set the Name and Sensor Type. This determines how the extra sensor will appear in your smart home app.
  4. Check the Inverted option to invert the open/closed logic if needed.

Self-managed ESPHome firmware

Add the gdo/external-binary-sensor.yaml package to the list of packages in your GDO blaQ ESPHome config:

packages:
  remote_package:
    url: https://github.com/konnected-io/konnected-esphome
    files:
    - path: packages/gdo/external-binary-sensor.yaml
      vars:
        pin: $wired_sensor_pin
        name: Garage Motion
        device_class: motion