So if I buy that it will work in HA through Homekit integration and no wiring is needed ?
The bridge installs easily with my MyQ garage ?
Fix:
That is correct.
You pair it to your garage door opener, and it is discoverable in HA using the HomeKit Bridge integration.
SOME of the newer Garage door openers already have HomeKit built into them, especially if they are WiFi all by themselves. Check your manual.
My opener was “MyQ compatible”, but required an external accessory to make it work. So I bought that for $29, then I realized there was a more expensive one that was HomeKit, so I would have local control. No more cloud delay, no more randomly going offline, none of that crap.
This is what you will need if your opener does not have HomeKit support built-in: https://amzn.to/44PcFdz
Thanks so much ! At $ 216 on Amazon, I’m going to wait and see if a HA solution comes. I see so many posts in GitHub, with some contradicting other. Some blame MyQ for deliberately blocking HA and other say that this not deliberate at all and that a solution comes soon.
I have tried all the SSH instructions but none work for me, so wait and see for the time being.
There will never be a solution that does what that device does in HA. Anything done in HA will always rely on the cloud.
$216?! In what currency?? It’s only $120 USD.
This fix did work for me for the last two days and as I recall it was supposed to not need to be tweaked if HA updated.
I just installed the latest HA core that dropped a bit ago and now I’m back in the same boat. 403. I tried to redo the above and restart HA. No dice.
Also not working in HA for me. Recently rebooted and the problem started. I have not implemented the fix. I am on the west coast if region matters.
Home Assistant 2023.4.4
Supervisor 2023.08.3
Operating System 9.5
Frontend 20230411.1 - latest
Just to make it easier to find, here is the link to the above screenshot source:
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Version 2.0 doesn’t require soldering? It can open/close the door over Wi-Fi?
I just updated to 2023.9.2 and performed a full reboot and MyQ is still working fine for me.
Did you do the fix prior? I had and it was working.
There’s a caveat at the end of the fix that whenever the “fix” gets applied to HA, to remove the config/pymyq folder and restart. I have not done that nor do I know if I need to yet.
I am pretty much confused by the multitude of proposed solutions. None of the SSH fixes work for me and I hesitate to go the Homebridge route, because every time I use Homebridge I get constant sign-on messages from Apple, and that is just too annoying.
I am no longer posting on the Github channel because I have nothing intelligent to add.
Two days ago the Myq integration worked for less than a day and then went off again.
My simple question is whether the real cause has been identified (my best guess is that it is the MyQ cloud service itself) and if a solution is expected, without having to do something in SSH ?
This post goes back over 2 years for the same issue. You can fix this issue very simply by dumping that garbage and getting yourself a 5$ esp board with a relay. 100% local control, no third party api that constantly goes down, no internet required. It’s a very simple process and can be done in 10 minutes and most importantly, it works 100% of the time.
I’m still a relative noob at this stuff and already spending a lot of time on HA, which is fine, but these outages are frustrating. I realize the initial setup w/an ESP board and maintenance may be the most challenging part to this, but otherwise, I’m assuming their are tutorials for this on YT?
I set mine up 4 years ago and haven’t touched it since. You’d want to search on how to make a relay. Or you can just buy a relay that works with zigbee or zwave. The hardest part is getting the relay to work with your garage door. Most of these new garage doors have encrypted signals, so you can’t just hook the relay up to the garage. I ended up buying an additional hardwired garage door opener, soldering 2 wires to the button, then connected those wires to the relay. It may sound hard, but it really wasn’t. It does require a soldering gun and some want/need to move away from Mycrap, I mean MyQ.
You do lose the ability to know if the garage door is open or closed, but that can be solved with a tilt sensor or magnetic sensor. Again, something you can build w/ esp devices or buy straight from a store. I bough a wired one for $20 that connected to my relay. So it’s all in the same device.
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Ratgdo solves all of these issues.
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Never heard of it, looks nice.
I’m going to look into Ratgdo.
In the meantime, this worked for me:
cd config
wget https://github.com/Lash-L/pymyq/archive/refs/heads/useragent_fix.zip
unzip useragent_fix.zip
mv pymyq-useragent_fix/pymyq .
rm -fr useragent_fix.zip pymyq-useragent_fix
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