Smart Garage Door Openers

I use a myq and I love it. Very simple setup and I can let people in and out of my house without having to give them a key. Also in the past I had a habit of being halfway to work and thinking about if I closed the garage door or not. Having the myq solves that. Also I didn't research different options. My wife bought it for me.

i'll eventually invest in the gocontrol one that speaks with smartthings.

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MyQ while nice seems very limited on what it can do with alerts and other functions since it is a closed system

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I've been selling the MyQ for years because of its integration with alarm dot com.



OP check out the Linear GD00Z-5

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Love it. Will be getting the MyQ HomeBridge when it comes out next month so so can just tell Siri to open and close my garage.

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So it isn't native homekit?

edit: I found the disconnect, the current MyQ isn't homekit enabled, the new version due out in July is going to be homekit enabled and pretty much make the homebridge unnecessary. If I go Chamberlain, it looks like it would be better to just wait.

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You can control it via wink and get any alert you want and if you need even more detail just integrate IFTTT and wink@home

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I don't want or need wink. It's a useless middle man for me. Rather get there a different way like using homebridge (raspberry pi) to get homekit access from unsupported diy stuff.

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I don't want or need wink. It's a useless middle man for me. Rather get there a different way like using homebridge (raspberry pi) to get homekit access from unsupported diy stuff.

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you never plan to buy any zigbee, lutron or zwave device? i mean, thats cool but you're incredibly limited on what you can integrate without a brain to handle all the radios.

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Raspberry Pi much? I have no use for wink and I get homekit integration.

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ok. enjoy your homemade device and buying all kinds of zwave and zigbee doodads to try to connect to it and the no-end to fiddling and trying to get the shite working.

meanwhile, i'll enjoy the hub i paid ONE PENNY for and the 100+ devices all connected via single UI that i can string together recipes from from a single white hub that i do nothing except...plug into the wall.

I have one of the GoControl rebranded ones from Lowes.

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It integrates great with my SmartThings hub. Took me 10 minutes to mount it and setup. It's been flawless so far.

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I really can't figure CAD out. Some things he likes to tinker, others he likes plug-and-play. But whichever route he takes, he WILL argue that it's the best. Well maybe I have got him figured out.

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I just started to notice this, apparently you can be too open source with CAD.

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i was just saying the wink is cheap and plug-in-and-forget and the raspberry pi was alot more tinkering for the average HA person.

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I'm just messing. I get it, I like to tinker, but I (and most everyone, I think) also like cheap stuff that just works. It depends on the mood and the topic, BUT when the mood strikes I'd like to be able to tinker with my cheap stuff, too.

I haven't gotten too much into HA stuff yet, but when I do, I'm going to take Dam Guide's route with Pi's and Arduino's and things like that. Not just because I like to tinker, but because I think it will be the cheapest and most stable system long-term.

I definitely will not get caught up in any vendor-locked solution, whether Google or Apple or whoever. A corporation can have my computers, devices, and online life or whatever, but they cannot have my home.

I also don't want to just toss together some random assortment of devices that happen to "integrate". That's more hacky than hacking together a network of general purpose devices.

Do you really want your entire HA solution to depend on a device you paid a PENNY for? Seriously though, when it breaks do you think you can replace it for another penny? Doubtful. It'll probably cost you about 2 RPi's.

Also, you tout the Wink hub's array of radios as a strength, but a Pi can be equipped with many, many more radios. You need a long-range, low power radio? Maybe you want to monitor the soil moisture content in your garden 300 yards away. For a few bucks and some time you can add that to your Pi. Your remote sensor might be a cheap arduino clone, and you can get the RFM69HW radios from china for less than $3 each. That's just a silly example, but the point is a homegrown solution using "generic" parts can grow as you see fit, not as some company sees fit.