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Just out of curiosity why would you want to open a garage door via the internet? If it somehow enables you to close the door without seeing what it might be clo
by hodgesrm 10y ago
Just out of curiosity why would you want to open a garage door via the internet? If it somehow enables you to close the door without seeing what it might be closing on that sounds like a spectacularly bad idea.
- maxerickson 10y agoObstruction sensors and automatic reverse have been required for decades (in other words, the openers are already meant to be safe to operate without observation). Anyway, just knowing it is open can be useful.
- ghaff 10y agoI can imagine use cases. The most obvious is: "Siri/Alexa open the garage door." (assuming some established authentication mechanism) rather than dealing with the unique garage door remote. I can imagine others. "This is Alexa, it's 11pm and your garage door is still open. Should I close it?" and things in that vein. But those seem pretty marginal. I have very rarely left my garage door open by accident.