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2GIG, CES, Garage Door, Garage door opener, Home automation, Iris, Linear, Lowe, Lowe's iris, Z-Wave
I went to visit myeyesoniris.com and found that there is news regarding the Iris Guarge Door Controller.
The news is released from CEpro.com where they explain that it’s made from a company called Linear and it will work with your existing garage door opener and it runs on Z-Wave. They also mention that it will be sold for $99 and will be shipped on March 2014.
That’s great but I couldn’t just stop here, and had to find out more about this Linear (linearcorp.com) company.
So while searching around their site they do have a designated page for Z-Wave devices on linearcorp.com/zwave/ where they mention about all sorts of Z-Wave products but no links besides just one brochure about mainly light switches!?!?
So I have to ask where is everything else? You can see from the image above there’s glass break sensors, cameras, keypads and etc.. I really like to see more options in the future besides the current ones Lowe’s Iris provides now.
More digging in the site resulted me to find a press release about a acquisition for a company called 2GIG on April 1 2013.
“2GIG is the leading provider of Home Automation and Home Security” this interested me to look further into this 2GIG company which I found is at 2gig.com.
The best part is that I found their whole line of products! (2gig.com/products)
If this garage door partnership with Lowe’s works well, then this gives me hope that they will introduce more options later in the future like the touch screen control panel!
I found this link with a brochure on the garage door controller. The brochure references a position sensor. I caller linear and got through to tech support. They confirmed that controller will have it’s on sensor to report the open/closed state of the door and gave me a part number of GD00Z-1.
http://www.linearcorp.com/pdf/literature/GD00Z_Lit.pdf
So…. I have been a bit frustrated on the release of this Garage Door opener. Its been announced as “Coming Soon” in the devices list since the first of the year, and was announced last year at the CES event in January. So this has been in the process for over a year now. Do to this, and seeing the attached brochure, I decided to contact the Mfg – Linear on the device and when it will be ready for release. Their response was: “Sorry for the inconvenience, the units are ready, we are just waiting for them to be released by Lowe’s”. This is telling me that Lowe’s is purposely holding back releasing them. I e-mail Lowe’s last week with no response yet. Typical of Lowe’s, the never respond to your requests. So, with that said, the product is out, but Lowe’s refuses to release the item out yet, nor tell us when it will be released. This is BAD for Lowe’s if they are trying to push the sale of the Iris System. Just release the product so we can purchase it!
SO…. I got another response from the Mfg Linear…. Seems I get more cooperation and support from the Mfg of the Garage Door Opener than Lowe’s. The Mfg advises that they are in close contact with Lowe’s about the Garage Door Opener product for the last several months. They were told by Lowe’s that they expect to release it in late July at Lowes and a wider availability shortly after. They advised that they will continue to nudge them for the exact dates and availability and they will make an announcement to them. Linear expressed their concern and are excited to get the product out there ASAP.
We just received this product in my store today. It is item number 589237, although I could not pull it up on Lowe’s website yet.
I wish this was using Zigbee and not Z-wave. I still have all sorts of problems with Z-Wave devices disconnecting. Especially, the z-wave devices out in my garage.
BTW, anyone know if this device will act as a z-wave repeater? It is plugged in to the wall, so theoretically, it should.
Yes the GD00Z-1 acts as a Z-Wave repeater
Just picked up my garage opener yesterday and cannot get the hub to see it nor the tilt switch after I just updated the Hub to the latest version. Has any one else gotten there’s to work or have the same problem with not pairing?
Yes, many had already paired it. http://forum.livingwithiris.com/index.php?/topic/85-garage-door-controller-in-hand/
Thanks. Followed the new instructions for pairing (5 hits on the link button), the unit flashes the red light, but does not pair with the Hub. Will call Linear for resolution today.
From what I understand if you have a pairing issue you need to contact Lowe’s not Linear, but either way I hope you get this resolved soon.
Try pairing the product while in close proximity to the IRIS hub. Then install it in your garage.
Linear wanted to charge $30 just to talk to their tech department. I ended up taking the unit back to Lowes for a refund. I was not using the unit for a garage door, but for a driveway gate that uses a garage door unit. I have come up with a less costly solution to use an IRIS light switch and a relayed circuit to open and close the gate. The limit switch in the control unit will be fed back into a modified tilt switch to indicate to IRIS whether the gate is open or closed. I’ll let you know my progress.
i just got it yesterday and I also have the pairing issue.Hub see it as unsecured device and can’t go any farther. Got to remove from the system. Try to pair again and didn’t work.
Try pulling the battery from the tilt sensor, wait 30 seconds, replace the tilt sensor battery, hit the link button 5 times on the controller, go back through the pairing process. This worked for some one in the forum.
I tried over and over again, pull battery, hit the link button, bring hub over to opener says it links but it never correctly find it. Problem is that the hub need to be connected to the internet at the time of linking. Works great
Pat,
Can you please post stepwise on the linking of the unit and when you activated the tilt sensor as well…
I tried moving the 2nd generation to the garage with the network connected and went through the pairing process several time and nothing ever happens. All my other devices paird fine. I don’t know what the issue is. It worked fine with Gen 1! I am a technician so I should be able to figure this out. Piece of CRAP!
I got mine a few days ago and have no luck getting it to work. After two times with Lowes support the unit is paired. The tilt sensor does not report the change of door status from open to closed or the reverse. I was able to close the garage once via the web interface, but since then it always reports an obstruction.
Lowes have escalated it to R&D department.
Actually sounds like the tilt sensor is not paired to the GD00Z main unit. Try the following:
1) If nothing happens, make sure the battery is in place correctly in the tilt sensor.
2) Press and hold the pair button on the side of the unit for about 7 seconds. It will emit a short chirp.
3) Release the button.
4) Rotate the tilt sensor 90 degrees to trigger a transmission.
5) A short chirp should be heard.
6) If a short chirp is not heard, try rotating the tilt sensor again.
If no chirp, then the tilt sensor is not working.
Robert thank you for your response. I went through the steps you provided. I was able to link the tilt status switch when I had it about two feet from the controller. It would report the door status as I was holding it. I remounted it to the door (straight line of sight no more than 10 feet away from the controller with no interference or blockage in between during operation). I was able to open and close the garage door with Iris 2-3 times. Then…nothing. It no longer reported the door status and would not respond to opening command. It went back to reporting an obstruction. I am leaning toward taking it back to Lowes and getting another one to try.
Glad to be of assistance.
Update on difficult garage controller…
Its alive!!!
A little less dramatic, but it works. After calling three times, corresponding by email with four different tech, trying what Robert suggested to make sure the tilt sensor was communicating with the controller, I took it back and got another unit.
Being careful to ensure the unit was communicating with the Iris hub. I reset the controller, paired the tilt sensor with the controller and then paired it with the hub. Iris saw it as an unsecured device, so I removed it and reset it, and re-paired to the hub. It was then seen as a garage controller.
I then as I sat there, tested it by manually tilting the sensor and it reported an open and closed successfully several times. I then opened the door (5 seconds of flash) I tilted the tilt sensor to indicate the door opened and it reported the door open. I then closed it and tilted the sensor and it reported it closed.
I then installed in in the garage making sure to mount the unit and tilt sensor, connect the opener before plugging in the power. I plugged it in and Iris saw the unit.
I Tested it and it opened and closed the door while reporting the status of the door correctly.
All it good.
Thank you everyone that has helped me in this effort.
Patrick
PS: I think the tilt switch was bad personnally.