Smart garage door controller is no longer smart

Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by atonse on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:43PM (#38186501)

F*ck these assholes. Pardon my language but I can’t hold back. Someone somewhere decided that this was a problem worth solving? You can’t stop it and also say it affects a small number of users. Which one is it? Was it a noisy neighbor problem?

I used homebridge for years and now this nonsense.

Maybe someone can build an SDR version that simulates the garage door remote? Then these jackasses can’t stop it.

Does anyone know how they were able to stop third party use? Certificate pinning to the API?

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by upon_drumhead on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:58PM (#38186607)

ratgdo [https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/] already exists and works great.

For the current roadblock, it appears it was due to cloudflare bot protection [https://community.home-assistant.io/t/the-current-state-of-m...]

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by atonse on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:38PM (#38186857)

Ordered it, thanks. I saw it in the article too.

Glad people like this exist.

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by mgerb on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:32AM (#38187395)

I haven’t previously heard about the ratgdo, but I recently did this myself with an ESP8266, relay, garage door remote, and Tasmota for the firmware. It works flawlessly with MQTT/Homeassistant. The individual components (excluding the opener) are < $10.

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by onedognight on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:19AM (#38188582)

You are missing the beauty of the ratdgo. The ratdgo has open source firmware that implements the encrypted serial communications needed to control and get status (open/opening/closed/closing) from Chamberlain / Liftmaster garage doors (without needing the myQ hub).

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by carlivar on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @12:40AM (#38187182)

There's also this, which I have used successfully for a while now with an old opener.

https://opensprinkler.com/product/opengarage/

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Re:Smart garage door controller is no longer smart by function_seven on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @12:48AM (#38187216)

+1 for OpenSprinkler! I have their sprinkler controller. Works with Home Assistant, it's awesome.

I don't have a garage door, but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate getting this one.

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