I know someone who worked on MyQ a few years ago. Management was focused on money and then the company got bought by Blackstone. So despite all of the PO's and developers desperately wanting to build a good product that just opens up people's doors, they were forced to put in a ton of dark patterns and implement dumb strategies.
Firstly, I completely agree with the sentiment in this post. I’m one of the many affected by this, and it’s annoying.
Secondly, I have a hunch that there is a lawyer on the MyQ side that said that allowing customers to control their doors via api will open MyQ to liability. It’s an absurd argument since, well, it is a door with a remote control, but I can easily picture someone making that argument.
I wish there was a way to ensure open compatibility of devices when they are sold, like an “open access” certification.
I built an opener with an ESP8266. Cost five bucks, took a couple hours, no cloud, no drama. Thanks to Home Assistant and Homekit integration, anyone in the household can use it effortlessly.
The only reason that I wanted Home Assistant to integrate with MyQ is to close my garage doors after 15 minutes if they were left open. The fact that their app doesn't support this out of the box tells you everything you need to know about the quality of their software.<p>Sadly I need MyQ to integrate with my Model 3 though. So I'll probably keep it and get ratgdo too (or something similar since my openers are older than Security 2.0) simply so I can close the door if it's left open.
When my 23 years old garage door opener failed to the point were it wasn't repairable, had to pickup new one. All decent ones comes with MyQ. Instead of using MyQ connection, I got extra 883LMW, opened it, soldered two wires to the button and connected it to my existing wifi door opener.
I was excited to get a door opener that I could open remotely and ended up with a MyQ model. I'm pretty sure that I managed to successfully control my door once or twice in 5 years. The app could never find one or both openers, the "door open" alerts never worked, and I eventually uninstalled the app and installed a keypad.
Agree with this, myQ is such a dumpster fire. It needs to have an the ability to be managed over the local network instead of requiring the garage door and app connect to their server.<p>My very first experience with myQ was figuring out that their IP blocklist provider, brightcloud, blocks anything with the word "proxy" - including the default "it works" page for Nginx Proxy Manager [1]. And they have no way of overriding this to actually provide service if someone turns out to be a legitimate customer.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/discussions/2127#discussioncomment-6326517">https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/dis...</a>