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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by bonestamp2 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:58AM (#38192231)
It does suck, but can you still use it remotely via the myQ app?
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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by chewmieser on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @12:35PM (#38193926)
MyQ app should work fine. Just not the API integration to MyQ.
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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by EMIRELADERO on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:46PM (#38194999)
Couldn't people do some reverse-engineering to figure out the first-party protocol and impersonate the official app in the API integration?
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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by AJayWalker on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @02:23PM (#38195563)
AFAIK yes, but to quote the article (which quotes the maintainer of the MyQ integration, Lash-L [0]), “We are playing a game of cat and mouse with MyQ and right now it looks like the cat is winning”

[0] https://github.com/Lash-L

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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by saagarjha on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:05PM (#38197785)
Yes, that's what they've done. The problem is that myQ keeps trying to fingerprint the device to check if the requests are coming from a real app before offering service.
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Re:Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door ... by lostapathy on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:42PM (#38196664)
The MyQ app sucks, though. Besides the dark pattern ad-forcing they do, I've also had the thing redraw while I was holding the button to open a door. Which meant the wrong door opened entirely - one that happens to be 20 miles from where I was standing. I have had this happen multiple times, it's ridiculous.
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