pressure plates and powered garage door.

[Sarcasm]

Did a little remodeling the other zombie day. Rummaged though all the items I've salvaged, when voila powered garage doors. Well that sounds fun. Used a couple of motion sensors to open one and when i leave open the other. The entering one is fine, but the exiting one also triggers on my walk way. Not good. So i spent time putting blocks in front of sensor trying to stop it from detecting me on the walk way. When eureka "pressure plates!" I'll just put down a pressure plate 1x5 and the vehicle drives over the plate and the door opens. Yeah that's the ticket. So I lay down a pressure plate, hook it up, step on it. Magic so sweet. I jump into the vehicle that sounds like it will blow a head gasket any second now and "run into the door". Wait, let's try that again, I back up and sally fourth "and hit the door". It will not open. I step on it .... the door opens. I drive any vehicle over it, and it stays closed. Come on Fun Pimps. You know that door should open. Ah well. Now that i have your attention, how do I trigger a rocket launcher with a pressure plate. There has to be a way ....

[rincewind]

I haven't tinkered yet with electric thingies, but maybe you can create a creative world and try things there?

[CoinSpin]

Yah, I ran into that very issue a long time back. Had a powered drawbridge that was supposed to come down and let me drive over the bridge, close when I got inside. Got it all set up, it picked up me walking on it just fine. I drove up, clearly hitting the plate, and no movement. Jump out of the 4x4, actually exited right on the plate, the bridge starts coming down. Climb in the rig, and it goes right back up the second I get in the driver seat. Ended up using a motion sensor combo to make it happen.

What did I learn? Pressure plates only seem to work on foot traffic, not vehicles. I would have thought they might fix that over time. Guess it's a super low priority? Even just having a "vehicle pressure plate" option would be nice, if it's too much trouble to fix the standard plates to respond to vehicles.

Or just give us a garage door opener we can hotkey while riding in a vehicle. That would be sweet.

[Sarcasm]

Originally posted by CoinSpin:

Yah, I ran into that very issue a long time back. Had a powered drawbridge that was supposed to come down and let me drive over the bridge, close when I got inside. Got it all set up, it picked up me walking on it just fine. I drove up, clearly hitting the plate, and no movement. Jump out of the 4x4, actually exited right on the plate, the bridge starts coming down. Climb in the rig, and it goes right back up the second I get in the driver seat. Ended up using a motion sensor combo to make it happen.

What did I learn? Pressure plates only seem to work on foot traffic, not vehicles. I would have thought they might fix that over time. Guess it's a super low priority? Even just having a "vehicle pressure plate" option would be nice, if it's too much trouble to fix the standard plates to respond to vehicles.

Or just give us a garage door opener we can hotkey while riding in a vehicle. That would be sweet.

Yeah, it's not that the motion sensor didn't work, it just worked to well, I have to find a mounting spot to do what i want and nothing more. (Big Sigh!) It's just the pressure plate would have been a quick, easy, and effective way to do it. It just such a let down, you have the "I'll use a pressure plate!" and you pat yourself on the back for coming up with a great solution .... only to hear "fun pimp giggling".

[CoinSpin]

Originally posted by Sarcasm:

Originally posted by CoinSpin:

Yah, I ran into that very issue a long time back. Had a powered drawbridge that was supposed to come down and let me drive over the bridge, close when I got inside. Got it all set up, it picked up me walking on it just fine. I drove up, clearly hitting the plate, and no movement. Jump out of the 4x4, actually exited right on the plate, the bridge starts coming down. Climb in the rig, and it goes right back up the second I get in the driver seat. Ended up using a motion sensor combo to make it happen.

What did I learn? Pressure plates only seem to work on foot traffic, not vehicles. I would have thought they might fix that over time. Guess it's a super low priority? Even just having a "vehicle pressure plate" option would be nice, if it's too much trouble to fix the standard plates to respond to vehicles.

Or just give us a garage door opener we can hotkey while riding in a vehicle. That would be sweet.

Yeah, it's not that the motion sensor didn't work, it just worked to well, I have to find a mounting spot to do what i want and nothing more. (Big Sigh!) It's just the pressure plate would have been a quick, easy, and effective way to do it. It just such a let down, you have the "I'll use a pressure plate!" and you pat yourself on the back for coming up with a great solution .... only to hear "fun pimp giggling".

I feel ya there. I ended up pairing motion sensors, 1 external aimed well out to catch my driving up, 1 inside aimed almost straight down behind the entrance, and then using the timer function to have it auto close a few seconds after no movement was detected. On a drawbridge setup, that means you better drive like you mean it, or you may end up launched into the air! Heh