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Garage Door Monitor/Controller (part 1)

Who hasn't forgotten the garage door open at some point... No... Must be just me getting old. :-) Anyway I thought this would be a cool project and could give some additional feedback when door(s) are opened, closed and possibly remotely control the door. So the basic idea to use an Arduino to monitor some sensors to see if the doors are closed and generate a message or alarm to let you know you forgotten the doors open. This alert can be after x minutes of the doors being open and potentially after even more time generate more alarts as a reminder. Since we now have an Arduino near the garage doors we can add more functionality without a lot of extra expense, so it is also nice to have a door open/close push button for each door at a more user friendly level. And while we're at it, some environmental monitoring would be nice. Using the MySensors library for comms and MQTT as the message pipeline makes it easy to roll out something like this fairly quickly, and w