⛩️ Automatic Gate Blueprint

[somber kindle]

Hello everyone 👋
I have been working for years on a blueprint to fully automate my gate, and I'm pleased to finally present the 2.0 version!

This blueprint works either with:

• 🚗 A travel time sensor (Maps, Waze, ...)
• 🛜 An iBeacon tracker
• 📍 A GPS tracker

Also, this new release introduces behaviors for each situation.
Now, you can open/close:

• 🧠 Automatically when needed (like before)
• ✅️ By receiving an actionable notification
• ⏱️ By receiving a cancelable timer

With this version, I wanted to really take into account every edge case, to be sure that the blueprint would stop/close the gate when something wrong would have happened.
Since my parents and I are users ourselves, I really wanted to make this work as safely and easily as possible.

I hope you will like it ! 🌟
By the way, if your gate cannot be controlled by Home Assistant, you should use my ESPHome Gate Firmware !

⛩️ Automatic Gate Blueprint

[patent jacinth]

Awesome! I had given your first version an attempt a while back but inevitability gave up on it because it would stop tracking a minute after I left the house. I'll give this new version a try! Ty for the hard work, regardless

[somber kindle]

Um... I'm not sure I understand your message.
What stopped tracking you?
Your GPS, your travel time sensor, or the whole blueprint?

[patent jacinth]

This was last year, so I don't remember exactly what the issue was. I just remember some notification from the automation saying the itinerary was cancelled shortly after leaving the house (or something along those lines).

But it doesn't matter now because I just gave v2 a try and it worked great. The debugging notifications are extremely helpful. There were some issues I had to fix and the notifications pointed me to the exact problem, making the changes a breeze.

Question - I have a vehicle in a garage and one outside of the garage. Would enabling these interfere with the automations for the in-garage car?

[somber kindle]

I'm really glad to see that the configuration checker is useful. I spent quite a bit of time developing it. 😄

[somber kindle]

On arrival you won't see any difference, but on departure it could take some seconds, depending on your sensors and your phone reactivity.
If you know that one of the cars is always in your garage, I would recommend setting up 2 instances of the blueprint.
Then, you can link these two by appending the itinerary sensors of the other one at the end of the list.

[patent jacinth]

It's usually in the garage. If it's not, the garage is likely open