Hopefully this fits here? Its self hosted, but not quite what the usual self hosted post would be. I've not seen any real reviews of these, so I figured I'd post

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[–] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is elite self-hosting, lol. I want more of this content.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Agreed. 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)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years 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. Bonus, it also works if you have a very old opener.
    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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