Garage door opener recommendations

There are some garage door openers that work in the MyQ environment, 3rd party host only so no local control.

Garage doors are quite aggravating out of the box smart home related, I haven’t found one that has local access control out of the box. The MyQ adapter is fine and cheap, but hosted only. Then there are the semi-pro brewed such as the Athom above, or you can role your own with an ESP32, some relays and ESP Home.

Personally I run the MyQ adapter because I already had it and it works good enough and thought it could use Homekit - but that can only be run with another expensive device that is no longer made. Eventually I’ll get a LilyGo ESP32 with Relay board and roll my own, when I can spare the time or MyQ permanently breaks.

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