Smart garage door controller is no longer smart

> The MyQ was the first connected garage door controller on the market. It launched in 2011 to solve problems like being halfway to the airport to start a two-week holiday and having to turn around because you can’t remember if you shut the garage door.

Chamberlain would have a leg to stand on here, however weak, if their stuff even worked. I have two MyQ enabled openers, and due to their location under the bedroom with my "networking closet", they're mere feet from the access point.

In the 5 years of owning the openers, I've successfully received a "door open alert" twice and have successfully used the app to operate the doors exactly once. Once, while on vacation, a neighbor called to say that our door had been open for two straight days and asked if I wanted them to close the door for me. I said yes and they closed the door. Within seconds I received one of the two aforementioned notifications.

And for control via the app? Forget it. The connection actually working between my app and the device so rarely works, I stopped trying years ago and went through the (very nontrivial) effort to get it connected to the built-in opener in my car.

My humble opinion for Chamberlain is to either let third parties build stuff that actually works, or remove the functionality entirely.

I have a dumb door opener. I smartened it with a tailwind, which is a small box that plugs into your opener, has a sensor on the door itself, and sits happily on your wifi. It has pretty good integrations, and you can get it working locally with homeassistant fairly well

https://gotailwind.com/

More discussion ended up over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38186303

Glad I saw this. I was about to buy 3 of them. Not anymore.