The ratgdo seems to do everything MyQ did but locally. What’s the issue?
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OverBiasedAndroid6L6@lemmy.world 7 months agoAgreed. I do not have MyQ by choice, and I’m actively looking for a new solution now that I can’t connect via Home assistant, but honestly I don’t love either solution shared in this article. Perhaps someone in the community will reverse engineer the MyQ controllers or MIM the API to enable local network control (see local tuya)
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 7 months ago
GiantPossum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That would be neat, but I really doubt it will ever happen
What don’t you like about ratgdo? It seems pretty good on paper, I’ve not yet got one in my hands. Hopefully soon
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
[deleted]KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
How so? It’s all of github, and even has an esphome flavor.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Look into ratgdo. No need to replace the whole unit, and a much cheaper solution overall.
jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Our solution that we set up years ago was to connect a Shelly to circuits on a normal, dumb door opener. The Shelly triggers open/closed itself and since the signal comes from the opener, there’s no crypto nonsense to figure out. It always works, no matter what MyQ/Chamberlain/LiftMaster do.
We also supplemented this with a tilt sensor so we know the state of the garage door. The door can still be cracked and not registered as opened, but that’s a compromise we’re okay with since we never leave it intentionally cracked.