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Smart Push-button for Garage Door

Step 6Schematic and Final Assembly

Schematic and Final Assembly
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As for wiring everything together, you can see from the schematic diagram that it does not get much simpler than this.

Reconnect the original two wires from the garage door opener to the switch after fishing the 4 conductor wire to the garage for power and connection to the magnetic door switch. This is where one of the terminal blocks will come in handy. I also used a terminal block inside the closet door so it would be easy for me to remove the push-button when I decide to do the mailbox indicator upgrade.

I closed the garage door while I was inside it to find the best location and properly align the magnetic switch and the magnet, then I opened and closed the door a couple of times while still inside to make sure everything was working OK.
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