MyQ's horrible take on open access to their devices
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MyQ's horrible take on open access to their devices
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#2Firstly, I completely agree with the sentiment in this post. I’m one of the many affected by this, and it’s annoying.
Secondly, I have a hunch that there is a lawyer on the MyQ side that said that allowing customers to control their doors via api will open MyQ to liability. It’s an absurd argument since, well, it is a door with a remote control, but I can easily picture someone making that argument.
I wish there was a way to ensure open compatibility of devices when they are sold, like an “open access” certification.
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#3Firstly, I completely agree with the sentiment in this post. I’m one of the many affected by this, and it’s annoying. Secondly, I have a hunch that there is a lawyer on the MyQ side that said that allowing customers to control their doors via api will open MyQ to liability. It’s an absurd argument since, well, it is a door with a remote control, but I can easily picture someone making that argument. I wish there was…
It would be meaningless. Tech companies promises are worth jack shit. The tech companies messing around in these product categories are often weak and flimsy from a financial perspective. They frequently abandon products, fail, get bought by another company that may not give a shit about their promises, etc
There is no fool proof solution to this. Except maybe make your own I guess. It’s a garage door opener. An esp32 controlling a relay wired to your existing garage door remote probably won’t look as nice but I bet it ends up being more secure
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#4When my 23 years old garage door opener failed to the point were it wasn't repairable, had to pickup new one. All decent ones comes with MyQ. Instead of using MyQ connection, I got extra 883LMW, opened it, soldered two wires to the button and connected it to my existing wifi door opener.
Re: MyQ's horrible take on open access to their devices
#5Firstly, I completely agree with the sentiment in this post. I’m one of the many affected by this, and it’s annoying. Secondly, I have a hunch that there is a lawyer on the MyQ side that said that allowing customers to control their doors via api will open MyQ to liability. It’s an absurd argument since, well, it is a door with a remote control, but I can easily picture someone making that argument. I wish there was…
It would be meaningless. Tech companies promises are worth jack shit. The tech companies messing around in these product categories are often weak and flimsy from a financial perspective. They frequently abandon products, fail, get bought by another company that may not give a shit about their promises, etc There is no fool proof solution to this. Except maybe make your own I guess. It’s a garage door opener. An esp3…
https://opengarage.io
Can’t comment on quality, haven’t got around to installing yet
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#6I use the Tuya based openers. They’re cheap and pretty good. I bet you could flash with esphome or other firmwares but I haven’t bothered.
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#7I built an opener with an ESP8266. Cost five bucks, took a couple hours, no cloud, no drama. Thanks to Home Assistant and Homekit integration, anyone in the household can use it effortlessly.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be meaningless. Tech companies promises are worth jack shit. The tech companies messing around in these product categories are often weak and flimsy from a financial perspective. They frequently abandon products, fail, get bought by another company that may not give a shit about their promises, etc There is no fool proof solution to this. Except maybe make your own I guess. It’s a garage door opener. An esp3…
https://opengarage.io Can’t comment on quality, haven’t got around to installing yet
I've installed two of these several years ago and integrated them with Home Assistant. Working pretty well, no major complaints. It uses a distance sensor to determine whether or not the door is open, so it's not as reliable as state that that the garage door opener has. There was one time the distance sensor acted up and I didn't know if the door was up or down, which was annoying because I was 100 miles away. Other than that, it does what I need it to do.
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#9The Meross smart garage door opener works well as an alternative.
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#10I built an opener with an ESP8266. Cost five bucks, took a couple hours, no cloud, no drama. Thanks to Home Assistant and Homekit integration, anyone in the household can use it effortlessly.
was it ratgdo by chance?
40 bucks, HA, and about half an hour each (mostly fiddling with the ESP/shield pcb wiring inside the light cover of the opener from the awkward overhead-on-a-ladder position) for me to no-cloud smartify two chamberlain MyQ openers. Special sauce is that the device can MITM the "Security2.0+" signal and emulate the discrete functions of the wired wall remote, not just act as a dry contact relay on the motor.
Result is that separate entities are created not just for the door open(ing)-clos(ing) states, but also for the obstruction sensor and a separate switch to turn the opener's light on or off remotely, all exposed (as MQTT topics) in HA.