I don’t understand why I can say if my garage door is open longer than 10 minutes between these hours close
The door. If someone leaves it open over night. Or during the working day.
I have about 20 schedules to close the door lol
Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
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Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#372Why hasn't a non-crappy iot/smart hardware line and ecosystem emerged after years and years of "internet of shit" catastrophes such as this one? So many angry users are a market ripe for capturing, aren't they? Or maybe there aren't as many angry ones as it seems, and it's just a small portion of power users?
Some have, I'm using opengarage[1]
I'm not big on DIY hardware. This has made the "pre-packaged" solution around an open standard nice. Integration within HA was very straightforward.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#373Why even buy a product like this anyway? Aren't there plenty of "dumb" smart garage door openers? Aren't there plenty of great stand alone garage door openers that you can wire a smart relay or whatever into? From what I can see there are plenty of "wifi garage door adaptor" options and everything looks to have pretty standard wiring, it's only not "plug and play" cause it's bare wires rather than plugs but it's esse…
> Why even buy a product like this anyway?
It's more like 'why not?'. It's still a dumb opener with a physical button and wireless remotes, and all the same third-party tricks work the same.
A nice thing about tight integration is that you don't need a bunch of extra wiring and a kludge to figure out door status. Minor annoyance, but real.
In any case, I'd wager a fair number of the people complaining about this don't even have the newer 'smart' openers, they have the original MyQ Internet Gateway or the newer MyQ Home Bridge. Liftmasters have been a very popular opener for decades.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#374Something that I don’t see people talking about here is that MyQ is the core/required integration component for Amazon Key in-garage delivery, a service used by millions of people to have their packages delivered to their garages instead of having them stolen off their porch. That’s why it needs Internet access. All the talk about how Chamberlain will go bankrupt because a comparatively small number of tech people st…
Somewhat off topic but it is quite stunning to me that American carriers just leave the package at the door. I lived in different European countries and in all of them the expectation is that the mailman (official mail, or any of the services like dhl, ups, etc) will ring the bell. If you don't answer they will ring the neighbour and then take it back and either try again another day or you can go to a pickup point.…
I dont want my neighbors to have my package. Fuck that. I'd rather they leave it on my porch.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
In US homes the garage is often a way to access the house with minimal security between the two.
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…
I've lived in many houses in the US (eight, some new, some older, in five states) and only one had a deadbolt on the door from the garage to the house interior. All have had normal locks and were exterior-door-quality. So, definitely not a universal truth.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#376I wrote the below in another post on this topic: They never technically allowed it in the first place. Homebridge and Home Assistant used a popular Python library that reverse-engineered the MyQ API from the Android app. Many companies couldn't care less until abuse ramps up, but given that Chamberlain (Blackstone-owned) has gone into rent-seeking mode all of a sudden (or an incident happened that they won't disclose…
> Tesla integrations
I sometimes wonder if Tesla nerfed the homelink functionality in the car just to encourage people to pay monthly for the MyQ software solution. I gave up trying to get my Model 3 to open/close the door automatically for me because the range is just abysmal. Went back to using a push button remote on the visor that will open the door from half a block away.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#377I installed Tailwind for my parents (it’s a little module that plugs into the motorized unit which allows the motorized unit to stay dumb) and it’s been flawless. Good app and good integration with smart services. I haven’t used their Home Asssistant integration but I can confirm their local control API works and I see that a HA integration exists. Tailwind is my model for what all smart home stuff should be.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should the garage door manufacturer take a cut if a third-party wants to use/access my garage door (which sells for real money and isn't advertised as a rental). If a homeowner wants to let Amazon, Walmart, etc to open their garage door, it should be up to him to provide them with an access token/secret/etc to enter, just like you can put a door keycode in the order notes. The interaction should be purely between…
I don't actually find this model so disgusting as long as it's implemented in a non-restrictive way. If a garage door manufacturer offers me a (free, local) API to fully control my door and allows me to check a box to let Amazon in, what, exactly, is the problem? Sure, I could also allow Amazon in without checking the box (assuming Amazon offers the appropriate integration and I'm willing to deal with maintaining my…
They are not giving me a free, local API. They are doing everything possible to make the API unusable except by their application, and they are throwing ads all over their app and using dark patterns to hid the open/close buttons until you scroll past the ads.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#379I use Home Assistant and have this openner. My installer recommeneded it because he’s had happy customers like me who use home automation. I can tell you that I a) will never recommend or buy the brand again, and b) have already complained to my installer about his recommendation of this line (and he is moving to another brand). I wish ratgdo a ton of success and have several on order.
I also just left my installer a voicemail explaining that they are going out of their way to break compatibility with the software I use, and I recommend that they look for another brand, at least for folks who are interested in wifi connectivity.
Re: Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
#380Most important quote:
> Buy products that work locally and won’t stop functioning when management wants an additional revenue stream.