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Don't forget highly locked down garage doors that are readily accessible by major merchants. And also pair easily with similarly locked down in garage cameras.

• convolvatron 3y ago
  I have a rental and I absolutely hate that thing. ads every time I want to leave the house. and it keeps switching to some kind of news updates that I have to click through to get to the open/close button. and it loses sync and needs to restarted all the time. constantly demanding that I link it to my amazon account. it really is dystopian
  • _ea1k 3y ago
    They've figured out a way to monetize garage doors. I agree with you, it is absolutely horrible. They regularly break third party (unapproved) clients too. At the moment, pymyq and home assistant are broken.
• VTimofeenko 3y ago
  I am actually looking for a wallmount garage door opener right now. While they do have myq-whatever cloud thing, my understanding is that it's optional. It should be possible to connect an ESP32 or the Konnected sensor thing which will pretend to be a wall button from the opener perspective. Could probably even stick it into a Faraday cage to prevent Amazon sidewalk scenario. Is that not really an option?
  • _ea1k 3y ago
    A lot of newer garage door openers, especially Chamberlain, don't use simple contact switches on the wall any more. Hacking the remote in this way is still possible by disassembling the wall remote and simulating the button press itself, but it is a lot trickier than with simpler garage doors. And myq cloud is horrible and worth avoiding. They used to have a homekit bridge, but they discontinued it.
    • VTimofeenko 3y ago
      Do you know if there's any non-myq jackshaft openers on the market?