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The only devices I have that are on Wi-Fi are ones I got before learning about HA. Zigbee FTW 👍

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Ah yes best possibile experience is this: (from the ars Technica article about it)

"Sadly, this app now displays advertisement at the very top and I cannot find a way to disable it," writes one Play Store reviewer (Google doesn't provide links to reviews). "This is very disturbing and on top of it, it moves my garage opening button out of the visible part of the screen. So to use it I now have to first look at the ads, then scroll down and hope to find my button."

They're not talking about your experience. They're talking about the experience at the CEO's summer house... That tennis court will not build itself and not for free 😁

Anything that only uses a phone app creates a mediocre experience by definition.

If it uses a standard API, it can integrate with anything and is convenient. You can use the phone if you want to.

All in all, there's definitely a worrying trend for the worse in the market.

The myQ app sucks so much, it doesn’t even have Siri integration or widgets. Plus it’s riddled with ads for their $100 camera.ARE YOU KIDDING ME‽ I’m 1 starting this actively (meaning at every update I renew my review)

A Deadman switch on the source sounds like an eff thing. I'd support it. Heck, while I was still maintaining a well-used oss app, I'd've wanted a Deadman switch on the signing keys so distro could continue without stress, but the sad fact was no one picked up my project even when I announced its impending doom.

Put some ~~windex~~ tasmota on it

This is why I just wired a zigbee relay in parallel with the wall button for my generic garage door opener

Sadly, that trend looks more true with each year.

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an extremely accurate part on Thingiverse or elsewhere on the internet.

I bought gocontrol units for my dumb garage door openers and had to build a relay system to get it to work with the intelligence wall plates as they were not just shorting out to trigger the door.

But it should work with any new non smart opener if I wanna stay away from proprietary crap

I bought 2 of them, on backorder, a few weeks back after the HomeAssistant integration broke yet again. I can't wait to get them in and get them installed so I can get my automatons working again.

Also, they are shutting down the public API from my understanding, not the ones that are sold by 3rd parties like Honda and Tesla that will still continue to work to open/close the door. So, they are pretty much going full reddit at this point.

This isn't an issue with hackers though - this is people legitimately using the devices that they paid for with Home Assistant and other automation systems.

Anything new I buy has the ability to directly talk to homeassistant without a third party. Zigbee, zwave, ip. If its cloud it can fuck right off, I don't need it.

Many brand names are using these protocols to talk to their bullshit hubs that then send your data out of your network. I've got a hodgepodge of stuff like samsung sensors, Ikea switches, ip cameras and all kinds of stuff.

It isn't even that hard to set them up. HA can detect most devices on the network and recognise them.

Garages just need a momentary dry-contact switch wired up where the button is (or you can get a ladder and place it closer to the motor).

I use a Sonoff 4CH Pro which could do up to 4 garage doors. Surely there are other dry contact options, but that's the one I use.

It's flashed with Tasmota, and each switch is set to stay on for a fraction of a second, like a button press.

For sensors I use z-wave door sensors. The magnet is taped to the door, and the sensor is installed above it. I copied and pasted some yaml from somewhere to make Home Assistant display everything properly. It's pretty slick!

This is in my covers.yaml file (referenced from config.yaml, of course).

        garage_1:
          friendly_name: Garage 1
          device_class: garage
          value_template: "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.garage_1', 'on') }}"
          open_cover:
            - condition: state
              entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_1
              state: "off"
            - service: switch.turn_on
              target:
                entity_id: switch.garage_1_toggle
          close_cover:
            - condition: state
              entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_1
              state: "on"
            - service: switch.turn_on
              target:
                entity_id: switch.garage_1_toggle
          stop_cover:
            service: switch.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: switch.garage_1_toggle
          icon_template: >-
            {% if is_state('binary_sensor.garage_1', 'on') %}
              mdi:garage-open
            {% else %}
              mdi:garage
            {% endif %}

I got two ratgdo modules in the mail yesterday. Hooked ‘em up last night and it was super straightforward. I disabled the built-in WiFi on the MyQ openers and they’ve been working excellently last night and today. No regrets!