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Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by abustamam »

rurp wrote: post #295
fnordpiglet wrote: post #287

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That’s not true, the garage typically has a full outdoor door with standard security (dead bolts, wired into the security system) the same as any other door as the interface door between the garage and the house. This is a code thing for a variety of reasons but primarily because the outdoor door is weatherized and provides a barrier against CO, but also for the precise reason that the garage door is not considered s…

At least in my experience people are a lot more likely to leave the garage door unlocked than the front door, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Agreed. Our garages have always had three entries: one from the house, one via garage door, and a side door. Side door was always locked, garage door always closed (never locked though), and the door between house and garage not only almost never locked, but often flat out open because that's where we put the litter box.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by simbolit »

PinguTS wrote: post #169
causi wrote: post #67

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The same pirated copy of Office 2007 has been doing me fine for well over a decade at this point.

We are a small company. I don't use pirated software. I like on-premise software over cloud solutions. Adobe and Zoom ae the only cloud solutions we use. Zoom is obviously. But I look on how to get rid of Adobe, while Adobe Stock has no real competition as the bought Fotolia, which we used before.

Serious question: did you try pexels? for most of my stock photo needs they are okay (not great but okay), and all pictures are public domain and free of charge. They don't have stock video tho. :(

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by nfriedly »

I have one of these garage door openers, and their MyQ software is absolute garbage. I set up Home Assistant specifically to avoid it and now they've gone out of their way to break that.

I' absolutely pissed - I just called the folks who installed my garage door and explained the situation to them, and recommended that they look for a different brand for anyone that wants wi-fi access in the future.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by abustamam »

kelnos wrote: post #292
bluGill wrote: post #284

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For retailers I want someone to verify that they are legitimate. I don't want random people in my garage. If someone enters my garage when I'm not home they better really be agents for WalMart/Amazon/target/UPS (as opposed to WolMort/Amozan/targit/USP...) , and whatever company does that does background checks on drivers. Probably they also need to have other cameras in their vehicles so that drivers trying to steal…

> as already pointed out, most people have an unlocked door from the garage to the house Not sure where you live, but every house I've lived in (USA, a few different states) during my entire life has had an exterior-quality door with exterior-quality lock, including deadbolt, between the house and garage. In the one house I lived in that had a security system, that garage-to-interior door was also wired into the syst…

I think parent comment was saying the door exists, but many people leave it unlocked. I grew up leaving that garage-interior door open because that's where we put the litter box, at several different houses.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by codeTired »

whoopdedo wrote: post #245
paulgerhardt wrote: post #234

Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.) Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain…

A stressed out underpaid and overworked delivery driver is the last person I want in my garage. Verified deliveries are left at the wrong house, or the driver simply takes it with them after posting the porch picture. And I've seen boxes arrive that were forced open and the contents pulled out. But sure, it's the customers who are untrustworthy not the delivery people.

Have you seen Walmart advertising delivery to your refrigerator? Absolute insanity.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by TeMPOraL »

cyberax wrote: post #290
whoopdedo wrote: post #245

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A stressed out underpaid and overworked delivery driver is the last person I want in my garage. Verified deliveries are left at the wrong house, or the driver simply takes it with them after posting the porch picture. And I've seen boxes arrive that were forced open and the contents pulled out. But sure, it's the customers who are untrustworthy not the delivery people.

> A stressed out underpaid and overworked delivery driver is the last person I want in my garage. Verified deliveries are left at the wrong house It doesn't work like this. Delivery workers use an app that opens the door, so if they are at a wrong location, it will be immediately apparent.

Subject to location service accuracy, which as we know, is ±1m... in movies, ±10m in reality... except more often it's ±50m or worse, because who knows why.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by leeoniya »

abustamam wrote: post #301
rurp wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least in my experience people are a lot more likely to leave the garage door unlocked than the front door, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Agreed. Our garages have always had three entries: one from the house, one via garage door, and a side door. Side door was always locked, garage door always closed (never locked though), and the door between house and garage not only almost never locked, but often flat out open because that's where we put the litter box.

haha, our litter box is there as well. vinyl floors in mudroom are easiest to clean.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by jkestner »

paulgerhardt wrote: post #234

Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.) Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain…

Lockitron! I remember chatting with your engineer about the WiFi radio we used in Twine. Good insight.

Ah, chokepoint capitalism. The problem with every company becoming a tech company is that they all expect unsustainable tech company growth. The strip mining of customers is also scaling up, so efficient that industries will destroy themselves. Can't wait until private equity owns the radios in my home, and controls not just the output but inputs.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by leeoniya »

dboreham wrote: post #260
traviswingo wrote: post #252

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True. Delivery drivers consistently deliver to my neighbor instead of myself. The last three digits of our addresses are 885 and 855, and they consistently confuse the two. They’re tired, overworked, underpaid, and I honestly don’t blame them. But I wouldn’t trust anyone in my garage/home when I’m not home. Not sure why these companies think that will actually work.

In US homes the garage is often a way to access the house with minimal security between the two.

i also keep expensive things in the garage: onewheel, a couple good bikes, a lot of nice tools. i assume this is true for quite a few homeowners.

Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

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Post by efitz »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #306
cyberax wrote: post #290

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> A stressed out underpaid and overworked delivery driver is the last person I want in my garage. Verified deliveries are left at the wrong house It doesn't work like this. Delivery workers use an app that opens the door, so if they are at a wrong location, it will be immediately apparent.

Subject to location service accuracy, which as we know, is ±1m... in movies, ±10m in reality... except more often it's ±50m or worse, because who knows why.

Not at all. Since the app is linked to a system that opens your specific garage door, it will be obvious because they push the button and the door in front of them does not open.
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