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
- 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
From My Devices, tap on your GDO White and tap Settings > Extra Input / Output
- Tap on Input Function and select Open/Close Sensor
- Set the Name and Sensor Type. This determines how the extra sensor will appear in your smart home app.
- 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