By no means the only solution, several have been discussed, but nothing else does as much or is as simple to implement.
I think it’s a very real possibility.
BUT…
The board schematics are in the wild and the software is open source. Even if they stop him from selling the devices, the basic solution would live on.
Very difficult to do. It would be difficult to find signaling that would break ratgdo without also breaking all the installed wall consoles.
They could always come out with Security+ 3.0, but I don’t see existing units breaking.
@Lash-L I just wanted to thank you for all the work. I am sorry you might just have to call this one done. Unless HA can get on the partner list. Seems they don’t want to play ball with us HA folks… There is a light the end of the tunnel…
More time to work on the RoboRock integration. I ordered a RATGDO yesterday…
For those interested in the warning beeps (@actran70, @billyjoebob999), this seems to have been worked out on the ESPHome side of Ratgdo and is in the process of being implemented. TTC Controls by mulcmu · Pull Request #43 · ratgdo/esphome-ratgdo · GitHub Basically, as I understand it, when you simply close the door, the warning is not triggered, but if the door is closed on a delay (Time to Close (TTC)), it will flash and beep until the delay is up. The app would just be triggering that delay as a safety feature. Personally, I always thought it was a bit long, and therefore annoying, so if I can shorten that delay a bit, I will be very happy.
Wow, those are impressive and quite possibly excessive, but I think you’re good.
For my house, we don’t have kids around often, and I’m not that concerned about the door lowering on someone because it’s so easy to stop it even if you’re standing right below it. Just stick out a leg. Leaving any warning would really be a just-in-case sort of thing.
Also, some of the relay switches does have the setting to turn this switch into a “garage door mode” where it would release back to off automatically within 1 sec, to simulate a manual button press. This is what I did with Zooz ZEN51. My write up here.
(I understand the write-up is not about MyQ, but the point here is to show that there are indeed dry contact relays out there that can do momentary.)
I got the MYQ homebridge. Its working fine but I want to block it from teh internet. When I do, the garage door constantly becomes unavailable. Does anybody know how to block it from the internet without the unavailable issue?
I like the idea of ratgdo over others purely because I only need to add that to the door opener to get access to all of the intelligence already built into the door opener.
Open/Close state is the big one - no need to add additional sensors.
Modifying a wall button will only let you open and close it - without knowing the state. For me, the state of the door is everything. Other solutions require adding a sensor to the door. I bought this MyQ door opener because it had all of that built in.
The MyQ Homebridge plugin is still using the internet API - if you block it you’ll lose access. To be able to block it from the internet it would need to talk to the MyQ directly (locally) - none of the software only solutions can do that.
Many people have an extra garage opener remote and a cheap zigbee dry contact device (Amazon $17). So Ratgdo is not the one and only best thing for everyone. Actually there are dozens of ways to do this depending on the opener and the home automation setup. Another example is when you have a non-chamberlain opener with a myQ hub for Amazon deliveries. For them, they don’t even need to wire the remote control since they can connect the dry contact directly to their wall button wires.
For older or non Chamberlain units, ratgdo doesn’t offer much advantage, but that hasn’t been the conversation.
The comment was specific to security+. There is nothing else I’ve seen that gives all the functionality of ratgdo (or esphome fork)for security+ openers: discreet open and close commands, light control, obstruction state, and opener open/close/opening/closing state.
Anything else and you are at least adding reed switches or other sensors to get something close to a usable solution. All more complicated to install than ratgdo’s simple three wire hookup.
I’m saying there are other options besides ratgdo, especially options that aren’t backordered and may have pieces at home they can put together (for free). I don’t want readers thinking they are stuck with only one option to get their automations working again. It would be dishonest to lead readers to that conclusion.
Here’s another Security+ 2.0 option for those who have a dry contact available. You can also get the button for $11 on amazon if you feel like adding your own wires to the solder pads. Security+ 2.0 Wired Dry Contact Adapter – Garadget
The myQ app doesn’t seem to ask for re-authentication so they might have a long lived refresh token or something. If that is the case we could use Charles Proxy or similar tools to sniff the official app authentication flow traffic and capture the credentials and refresh token + initial access token. We could then add these details to HA config and could get this working again.
It would be a bit cumbersome to setup but might be a one time setup.
I don’t have the time to look into the app traffic this weekend but might have it next week.
Done with MyQ. I bought a Refoss with HomeKit on Amazon. Set up with HA as a HomeKit device and made it available to iOS via HomeKit Bridge. Local control, no cloud this way. Took a little futzing but so far so good. The wireless door sensor of MyQ is nicer than the wired door sensor of Refoss.
I ordered a RATGDO yesterday…