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The biggest maker of garage door openers in the U.S. has done the same thing. For a button that goes on the wall to open the door, now it sends an encrypted co
by cameldrv 2y ago
The biggest maker of garage door openers in the U.S. has done the same thing. For a button that goes on the wall to open the door, now it sends an encrypted code instead of just shorting two wires so that you have to use their button instead of a regular doorbell button like people have been doing for decades.
- spikej 2y agoWhich company, and which product did you see this with?
- coupdejarnac 2y agoChamberlain devices do this. Genie devices do not.
- 1-more 2y agoGenie is nice; you can add Homekit with any of Meross's garage door doodads for $50ish
- cameldrv 2y agoChamberlain and Liftmaster do this. They’re both owned by Chamberlain group and I believe they are the two most popular brands. It’s caused tons of headache for people doing home automation stuff, especially since Chamberlain has cut off API access to home assistant. Then the home assistant people figure they’ll just rig a raspberry pi or something to short two wires, but then they hit this encryption nonsense.
- rogerrogerr 2y agoHeh, bet you can just short the contacts the button usually closes. Really hard to DRM a button.
- spikej 2y agoThat's nuts! For what it's worth, I bought this for my old chamberlain. https://gotailwind.com https://gotailwind.com I was looking into replacing the old unit with a new one with myq but then read about all the problems and decided to give this a shot. 3 years in and it's been a good decision.
- Arrath 2y agoGod that's just insane.
- cyberax 2y agoI can't recommend ratgdo (Rage Against the Garage Door Openers) project highly enough. It implements the protocol and allows you to interact with the door: https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/ https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/ The protocol itself is crazy, with obfuscated ternary data (instead of binary). People who reversed it are heroes.
- WWLink 2y agoI blame it on cybersecurity experts lol. They probably went all alarmist and decided that having that was a giant security risk.