Sensaphone Magnetic Reed Switch (FGD-0006)

g'day it's james here welcome to the channel today we're checking out limit switches or in particular magnetic reed switches they're an essential part of every automated home to let us know if our doors and our gates are open or if they're closed we're going to see how they work we're going to install one and we're going to try using them in automations we'll find them all over an automated home in almost every place and they're very handy this gate motor has open and closed limits which is built in built into it they're tactile switches ones here ones down there and they can be adjusted by rotating these shafts to set the open and closed position and the home assistant actually knows because it gets sent to it by this cable here and if you thought that fridges are magical i'm afraid to disappoint you they have limit switches too so for a long time i had a door that was controlled by a