re: Chamberlain MyQ garage door opener

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It looks like they removed the skill. It's to prevent someone from yelling through your window to your echo and the door opening.

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which is retarded. you could just set up the skill so its a custom phrase. "alexa open the enterprise bay". i'm so tiredof this argument. you can provide security without throwing the baby out with the bath water.

i have 2 zwave+ garage door openers and programmed them to work through alexa and everything works perfectly. probably more steps than necessary but i just created a macro in my home automation hub (hubitat) and set up a phrase in alexa to call the macro. alexa has no idea what she's controlling. she's just calling a macro and the macro does the work on the HA hub.

'alexa open the escalade door' and 'alexa open the floyd door' (we named our classic bmw floyd because he came with a pink floyd CD stuck in the cd player)

i rant alot about chamberlain because their smart garage door opener is garbage. mine splices into the doorbell wires controlling the switch so it will work with *ANY* garage door opener created in the history of mankind.

there's also no fee to use it.