I'm glad to see that Iris now supports adding the garage door to the security devices and rules, but it's not currently reasonable or practical as implemented. Setting off the alarm grace period when the garage door opens requires that someone can park their car and get into the house before the gace period expires, or to have a multi-minute grace period where a thief can smash and grab and be long gone before Alarm Monitoring starts making calls. Futhermore, it's treated as a contact sensor so you can't make it part of "2 sensors required", it instantly triggers the alarm grace period. What we really need is a customizable grace period: someone entering my front door should have 0 grace, someone opening the garage should have a few minutes, someone entering from the garage should have 30 seconds...
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