Wireless Z-Wave Multi-Input/Output Dry Contact Bridge; Cert ID: ZC08-16040002

I had been looking for a Z-Wave garage door opener and this fit the bill. I purchased this and the Ecolink Z-Wave garage door tilt sensor. I also purchased a 12 to volt DC Power supply as it was not mentioned that one came with it. But it DID come with one so don't make the same mistake I made. It's all wired up with a power supply right out of the box.This works great with the Smartthings hub (www.smartthings.com) as well as the Stack Box (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1561203377/the-stack-box-a-smart-home-controller?ref=nav_search) and I'm sure it will work well with Vera and other Open Source type home controllers.I paired the device first before doing the install. It's easier to take the device directly to the hub than taking the hub to the device once installed.Install was easy. Fortrezz has an easy install guide on their website but you just need to connect a wire to COM1 and a wire to NO1. Then connect the other end to where your push button remote typically would connect. COM1 to Com and NO1 to the other end.The Smartthings APP itself is not as straight forward as you need to open the garage door. Remember this is a dry contact bridge and not necessarily made to open and close a door... so you must turn it off and then turn it on again to activate the door. Then again you will need to turn it off and on again to stop the door. Same thing to close. Turn it off then back on. I have a feeling Smartthings will build a better application once more people are using it with their garage doors to handle the multiple steps to activate and deactivate the dry contact bridge with multiple commands instead of issuing the commands ourselves thru the App. The Stack Box on Kickstarter will be a lot more App friendly if not more communication friendly.

Works fantastic.I setup my family with a Wink Hub 2 and some thermostats but they wanted to control the fireplace as well. The fireplace had a light switch it used but its either low voltage or un-powered because my V-meter read 0V AC and DC. This make the various smart switches a non-option. I needed a separate power supply and relay which is exactly what this is.I wall-mounted this right above the outlet and cut the power wire short to hide it. I fished the control wire (used thermostat wire) up to the light switch and wired that in all hidden. You could paint this and it would basically vanish in my installation. Its a LITTLE big to stuff in a junction box so I don't recommend that unless you have an extra gang.I manually set Wink to inclusion (a little counter intuitive but its inside the hub setting in the app then inside Z-Wave), it flashes, then plug in this switch and it flashes red slowly automatically in inclusion mode. After about 30 seconds the wink hub flashes green for a successful inclusion and a new "siren" appeared in my app. It would be better if it was a normal light switch but the Siren is usable because you can set robots or shortcuts to turn it on and off so it has the same function as a switch.I wired it in parallel with the light switch so both still work - you just have to turn it off with the same one you used to turn it on or it gets confusing. Stated another way - BOTH switches need to be OFF for it to turn off.I will be buying more of these. Added bonus - the instructions are quite good and detailed. Also you can set these to momentary (think press and release) to operate a garage door, turn on an AC unit, operate a door chime, etc. Wish it was more like $30 and wish it was "officially" supported by Wink, but it works well enough to be worth the money and solved my automation issue.

Rock solid Z-wave solution for controlling a garage door. The MIMOlite has an additional set of terminals to accept a hard-wired sensor switch to report if the door is opened or closed back to the Z-wave hub. I paired this MIMOlite with an overhead garage door contact switch  Aleph America PS-2023 Overhead Door Contact . The overhead garage door contact is a magnetic reed sensor that is actually hard-wired to the MIMOlite. There is NO mis-communication as to whether the door is open or closed like you get with those tilt-sensors used on other Z-wave garage door solutions. Also, because it is hard-wired, there is no more requirement for a battery in a tilt-sensor either. So, reliability goes way up with this configuration.When I added the MIMOlite into the Smartthings Z-wave hub, it was identified as a generic switch. You need to go into the ide.smartthings.com portal, log in with your ST account, and change the device type from Generic to MIMOlite garage switch on the pull-down menu. After that, the Smartthings app will correctly report the status of the garage door sensor. I wish the Samsung Smartthings team would add this MIMOlite device inside their manual device setup options within the Smartthings user app so it could be easily discovered, instead of having to search the whole Internet through tons of confusing programmer geek forums to find this important piece of information out.UPDATE 12/13/2016: Had an issue with the MIMOlite device handler option that I selected in ide.smartthings.com. After about 6-10 minutes it would go to an "opening" state in the app. If I cycled the door, it indicated correctly, but then would mis-report again. I finally installed a different device handler created by Simon Capper (skyjunky: MIMOlite - Garage Door Control) in the IDE and that device handler works perfect. This handler also lets you use a variable potentiometer(resister) as a sensor to report the exact position of the door as it moves up and down. I'm just using a magnetic switch, so it simply reports open/close for me; and that's fine. Again...hope the Smartthings team cleans up these drivers/handlers/routines so the average guy can get this stuff working. Still has the feels of hacker/geek environment with some great people contributing to the cause, but the company itself not solidifying working solutions out-of-the-box.UPDATE 1/27/2019: Still working perfectly. It does NOT work with the latest Smartthings app though. You have to use the Smartthings Classic app, which is still supported and offered as an option on Smartthings. Samsung hasn't ported over all the custom solutions/code yet to the new app.