Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

> The MyQ integration was introduced in Home Assistant 0.39, and it's used by 3.1% of the active installations. Its IoT class is Cloud Polling.

"Cloud Polling", meaning they don't have a way for an API client to register for state change callbacks. I'm sure this is why there is so much traffic - if Home Assistant wants to support triggers based on state changes (eg door opening, turn on home lights), then it needs to repeatedly check the status so that it becomes aware of the change in a timely manner.

(Personally I only buy/use devices with local control, and generally cut them off from Internet access. Just saying though)

Seems like a bit of an ill-adaptation. I used to want a smart door lock for exactly this reason, but instead I learned to be mindful when I close my dumb door...

No doubt they want to exploit that data and begin integration with all their shady Real State business [3].

Their new CTO/Executive VP says in one of their PR news: "With Blackstone’s partnership, we will capitalize on new market opportunities". And a Senior Management Director says "...unique opportunity to build on its leadership position at the center of housing and e-commerce megatrends (...) expansion into connected homes, businesses and communities" [4].

Very alarming in times that big owners are trying also to force biometric data collection in their buildings (see Atlantic Plaza Towers) or are blindly giving information to agencies (see Amazon Ring cameras and the likes).

Now, the rant:

Of course, with one hand the CEO is donating to buy his name in institutions: "There is a Stephen Schwarzman building at the New York Public Library, a Schwarzman centre at Yale University and the Schwarzman College of Computing in Massachusetts. Soon, the University of Oxford will open the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, funded by the largest single donation it has ever received." [5] and the other is receiving billions from universities like UC to speculate in real state [6].

One would say it's curious how Schwarzman creates a huge publicity stunt with "biggest single donation 'since the Renaissance'" (£150m) [7], but why would be important to donate to Oxford, when they have almost £8b in endowments... [8]

  1: https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/the-duchossois-group-completes-saleof-chamberlain-group-to-blackstone/
  2: https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-to-buy-chamberlain-group-11631019601
  3: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un
  4: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chamberlain-group-adds-top-tech-leader-dan-phillips-as-cto-to-accelerate-companys-technology-transformation-301744538.html
  5: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/blackstone-rebellion-how-one-country-worlds-biggest-commercial-landlord-denmark
  6: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-20/university-california-blackstone-real-estate-fund-housing-prices
  7: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/19/oxford-receive-biggest-single-donation-stephen-schwarzman
  8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_endowment#Endowments_over_%C2%A31_billion

I bought a Miku baby monitor specifically because of the 2 devices that offered a feature I wanted, Miku had no subscription fees. And they advertised that they never would. It cost $400.

Then they went bankrupt and during bankruptcy they sent out a proposal to start charging for previously free features. Then they retracted that proposal. Not sure if the judge shut that down, or what happened. But then they sold to a company conveniently created the day of the sale.

Within a month the new company forced out an over the air update that disabled most functionality until you pay them $10 a month (they went bankrupt in the first place because they did a normal over the air firmware update that bricked every single unit and had to replace them all).

Last time I checked they were still being advertised on Amazon as being subscription free.

Honestly I think we need regulation to force companies to purchase a bond to provide basic security and support for any IOT devices they sell for some number of years from the purchase date. I don’t see any sign of the market solving this anytime soon.