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I highly dis-recommend this product, particularly if you want to use it with something like Home Assistant. First of all, their app usually takes about 30-60 s

I highly dis-recommend this product, particularly if you want to use it with something like Home Assistant. First of all, their app usually takes about 30-60 seconds to load up which is pretty frustrating when you're waiting outside your garage and trying to get in, just waiting on a spinner as it has to go talk to some cloud server somewhere. Second, I use Home Assistant for pretty much everything, and Chamberlain has a habit of breaking their API every few months. From what I've gleaned they seem to change how they allowlist user-agent headers to try to intentionally break things like Home Assistant. Eventually I got tired of it constantly being slow and/or not working, and I threw it away. I replaced it with a programmable Z-Wave contact relay (Zooz ZEN16). It works much better now. Lastly, the newer Chamberlain motor units actually don't use simple push buttons anymore, so what I've done isn't even an option. I believe it's some kind of PWM over the wire to the wall-mounted buttons. I would recommend not buying any Chamberlain product because of their anti-consumer behavior.

cryptoegorophy 5y ago
For myq if you have iPhone there are “short cuts” available to quickly open the door or close it, it is extremely fast and efficient. Their app is useless and only thing I use it for is for notifications if the door has been open for 5min+
waswaswas 5y ago
I just timed it, and it took 4 seconds from opening the MyQ app to being able to open my garage door. The only time I experience the load times you’re talking about is when I’m connected to my house WiFi far enough from the house that I don’t really have any internet connection at all anyway. MyQ is probably the best $30 I’ve ever spent. I’m under no illusion that that APIs are appropriately handled, or that it’s great for all workflows. But for me, it delivered the expected functionality, no RPi hacking required.
twothamendment 5y ago
From what if seen, most modern openers have lost the ability for a simple button to open/close the door. If you solder, even just a little, you can attach a pair of wires to the board in the wall mounted button so you can control it from whatever project you are doing. I using pins on a pi to flip a relay and complete the circuit as if I pressed the button.
- rhinoceraptor 5y ago
  Linus of Linus Tech Tips had a video [1] where he tried just that on a new Chamberlain opener with MyQ built in, and couldn't get it to work, the wires would act as antennas and trigger the door randomly, just from stray RF. The button panel for my ancient opener runs off of two wires, and each button is connected through a different value resistor, so I'm assuming the way it works is it measures the voltage drop to tell if you pressed the door or the light button. But, just connecting the two leads from the opener is enough to open or close the door, and I never use the built in bulbs on the opener anyways. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU
- gregmac 5y ago
  I did this. Bought a LiftMaster 883LM button for mine, and soldered an extra wire to the actual pushbutton contact inside. This was cheap so I wasn't really worried about breaking it, plus it is much simpler (easier to solder) than the "big" button that has an LCD and motion sensor. Bonus is I have an extra button to control the door mounted at the front now. I did this about 8 years ago, and hooked it to an Insteon network, which is ultimately connected to my HomeAssistant setup. If I was doing it today I'd probably do the same soldering but wire it to something I could run tasmota on (and control via mqtt).

cryptoegorophy 5y ago

For myq if you have iPhone there are “short cuts” available to quickly open the door or close it, it is extremely fast and efficient. Their app is useless and only thing I use it for is for notifications if the door has been open for 5min+

waswaswas 5y ago

I just timed it, and it took 4 seconds from opening the MyQ app to being able to open my garage door. The only time I experience the load times you’re talking about is when I’m connected to my house WiFi far enough from the house that I don’t really have any internet connection at all anyway. MyQ is probably the best $30 I’ve ever spent. I’m under no illusion that that APIs are appropriately handled, or that it’s great for all workflows. But for me, it delivered the expected functionality, no RPi hacking required.

twothamendment 5y ago

From what if seen, most modern openers have lost the ability for a simple button to open/close the door. If you solder, even just a little, you can attach a pair of wires to the board in the wall mounted button so you can control it from whatever project you are doing. I using pins on a pi to flip a relay and complete the circuit as if I pressed the button.

rhinoceraptor 5y ago
Linus of Linus Tech Tips had a video [1] where he tried just that on a new Chamberlain opener with MyQ built in, and couldn't get it to work, the wires would act as antennas and trigger the door randomly, just from stray RF. The button panel for my ancient opener runs off of two wires, and each button is connected through a different value resistor, so I'm assuming the way it works is it measures the voltage drop to tell if you pressed the door or the light button. But, just connecting the two leads from the opener is enough to open or close the door, and I never use the built in bulbs on the opener anyways. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU
gregmac 5y ago
I did this. Bought a LiftMaster 883LM button for mine, and soldered an extra wire to the actual pushbutton contact inside. This was cheap so I wasn't really worried about breaking it, plus it is much simpler (easier to solder) than the "big" button that has an LCD and motion sensor. Bonus is I have an extra button to control the door mounted at the front now. I did this about 8 years ago, and hooked it to an Insteon network, which is ultimately connected to my HomeAssistant setup. If I was doing it today I'd probably do the same soldering but wire it to something I could run tasmota on (and control via mqtt).