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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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