kinda a crappy solution but an easy trick around this is to add your garage door to smart things, then the smart things integration in HA. The door should show up
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I just installed home bridge in a container and added the home bridge-genie-aladdin-connect addon, logged into it which allowed home bridge to create the two HomeKit devices(one for each garage) and then in HA I had the devices discovered because I already had HomeKit integration created(which is sounds like you do also).
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This worked for me as well, thanks for the idea @bcre3306!
I imagine if Genie doesn’t follow through with an updated integration, we could rewrite the old integration to emulate the Aladdin Connect mobile app like the Homebridge plugin does.
I installed Homebridge as an Add-On, then used plugin mentioned above. I didn’t even have to rename any of my nodes in Node Red. Worked perfectly!
Note, don’t upgrade NodeJS just yet via the GUI. There’s a known problem doing that.
I have homekit bridge running on my NAS. HA has it under integrations but I dont see the garage door devices. If I login to my homekit bridge I see the garage doors but HA doesnt see them.
Ensure you have homebridge-genie-aladdin-connect installed. Set that up, then reboot the whole Home Assistant instance. I recall not seeing them until after the reboot.
Its just the plugin for homebridge right?
Maybe this error means something?
Could not create mDNS advertisement. The HAP-Server won't be discoverable: Error: No such interface found
[3/7/2024, 9:53:06 PM] [Garage Doors] Restoring existing accessory from cache: Door 2
[3/7/2024, 9:53:06 PM] [Garage Doors] Restoring existing accessory from cache: Door 1
[3/7/2024, 9:53:06 PM] [Garage Doors] Restoring existing accessory from cache: Door 3```Did you figure out how to get your HA to see the garage door? Mine isn’t finding it either
@Slowie and @jsmith: How are you two running HomeBridge? I’m running it in Docker with network mode = host and it worked fine for me.
I can confirm homebridge works like a charm I used GitHub - davide125/hassio-addons: Personal repository for Home Assistant add-ons for maximum ease of use by running as a HASS add on!! Now can we just port the homebridge implementation to HA
Any update on the port to HA?
Just that they are working on it. So. No.
Dj
Since this issue has frustrated me so much, I’ve started work as of yesterday on porting the homebridge-genie-aladdin-connect plugin to a HACS integration.
It’s still a major WIP, and I don’t have an ETA for completion (sounds familiar, I know) but so far I’m able to authenticate and pull my devices and garage door names. Still to be done is actual sensors and control of the covers.
I’ll keep you all updated on my progress. Keep holding tight!
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Sorry, I missed this reply.
HomeBridge is installed and running on my Synology
Hi all,
I’ve completed my initial port of the homebridge plugin for HACS! 
v0.2.1 is the latest version that has sensor data, and works for opening and closing the door (at least from my devices and testing).
Instructions can be found in the repo. Please feel free to file issues and model name requests as necessary; I only have two of the same type of device to be able to test on, so user data would be great!
Happy HACSing!
Thank you so much for doing this! It works great with my opener (model “Ceiling Mount”…that’s all their app says too).
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Thanks. Got it installed.
dj
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Thanks so much! It’s silly but the ability to open/close my garage door was one of my favorite HA tasks. I have a zone based automation to open my door when I enter the zone if my door is closed. Man I missed having that.