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For your own garage door, if you are going to need your phone anyway to scan the code, why not just use regular automation tools? I.e. Just press a button on y
by rootusrootus 2y ago
For your own garage door, if you are going to need your phone anyway to scan the code, why not just use regular automation tools? I.e. Just press a button on your home screen and you're done. Something like Home Assistant can do that easily enough.
- ramses0 2y agoIt's the "external user" use case, and a case of the over-complicators gloves... instead of changing the 9v battery in that box every "$N" years, put a QR code up that gives you the regular pin pad thing and then triggers HA in the back end. (that's why I suggested "IFTTT" integration). Obviously there's 100's of easier ways to manage things which is why I haven't done anything on it yet. It just seemed like an adjacent use-case worth sharing to the creator. I'm not wiring up a "doorbell" to my back garage, but popping an "approve/deny" thing that eventually hits an API endpoint or IFTTT integration (with geo-location?) isn't that far off from what he has and is an entirely different value-prop of utility.