Complete noob here and maybe this isn’t “home automation” so I apologize in advance.
I have a specific use case: I need to be able to alert anyone inside my garage that it’s about to be opened, with time to get out of the way. I want someone driving up to be able to ring a sound inside the garage before opening the garage door from the car. (if it could be one action: hit the remote, bell rings, pause, then door opens, that would be ideal)
No amount of googling search terms has yet returned any useful results, unfortunately. I am open to using something like Alexa or Siri to make the sound/action if I could find the ringer needed.
My garage door opener is Chamberlain, but I don’t have MyQ installed - I don’t find that it has any ringer/bell function anyway. Maybe I just don’t know the right lingo for this? Thanks for any ideas and guidance!
If you have a Genie garage door opener, and the “Aladdin Connect” app connected, it does exactly what you describe if you open the door via the app. Basically you press the button in the app, then the garage door starts beeping and flashing the lights, and then what seems like a few seconds later the door will start opening.