Home Assistant Garage Door
Shanta Plansinis
TL;DR: The MyQ integration will be removed from Home Assistant in release 2023.12 on December 6, 2023. Chamberlain Group, the owners of MyQ, have released a public statement saying they will continue blocking access to third-party apps, like the MyQ integration. For current MyQ users we recommend ratgdo, a device that physically connects to your MyQ garage door opener and allows you to control it locally.
Chamberlain Group recently made the decision to prevent unauthorized usage of our myQ ecosystem through third-party apps. This decision was made so that we can continue to provide the best possible experience for our 10 million+ users, as well as our authorized partners who put their trust in us. We understand that this impacts a small percentage of users, but ultimately this will improve the performance and reliability of myQ, benefiting all of our users.
You may wonder if Home Assistant could become an authorized partner. In their partner program, the partner companies pay Chamberlain Group for the privilege of letting MyQ owners control their own garage doors. We are open to working together with Chamberlain Group, but as Home Assistant is an open-source project, we cannot pay a partnership fee. Not only is this financially not viable, it also goes against our values. MyQ users should be able to access the devices they paid for and the data they own in any way they want, without a third party having to pay an additional fee.
Because we cannot continue to work around Chamberlain Group if they keep blocking access to third parties, the MyQ integration will be removed from Home Assistant in the upcoming 2023.12 release on December 6, 2023. We are very disappointed that it has come to this and sincerely hope that Chamberlain Group is willing to reconsider its position. We would happily welcome this integration back if Chamberlain Group would work with us for the good of their customers.
You can build your own quite easily with a MIMOlite I/O (or other similar devices) where you run the switch wires to the terminals on the garage door opener and then the open/close sensor into the sensor.
For non LM/Chamberlain - Genie, Linear, and just about anyone else, there are plenty third party local options without full DIY. One kit reasonably priced with good reviews is the Meross MSG100HK or MSG200HK (1 or 2 doors). They expose the doors and operate 100% locally to HA via homekit. Konnected.io has another well reviewed kit, but seems pricey to me. But there are plenty of other options out there.
Until now it was impossible to open or close your own garage door without resorting to some sort of hack. You either had to subscribe to their cloud service and use myq, or subscribe to their service and rely on a polling script through an undocumented API, or soldering wires to a button and control it with a relay like a shelly one or something similar.
The whole thing annoyed me to the point that I decided to reverse engineer the wired serial encryption and release an ESP8266 shield that gives full local control over the door with dry contacts or with mqtt.
After months of work, I have a solution that is ready for some beta testers. As of this writing I have a batch of boards on order and expect to receive them in a couple of weeks. If you are interested in testing, please DM me!
And regarding the rolling code & encryption - I reverse engineered it and in doing so discovered a major design flaw in the whole scheme that allows me to use a special set of static commands to control the door opener.
Thought I had some spare D1 minis around but turns out they were NodeMCUs. Waiting on next day Amazon delivery now. Next hurdle will be bracing for the Texas heat in the garage to take out and solder the control board.
Is this for 2 doors? I have 2 and would ideally like to have them both uniquely identified on the same card if possible. Would love to have some sort of status with the icon that can show if the door is in motion (opening/closing) if possible but not sure how that might be configured.
Basically the goal is to have a single card that lists both main and 3rd stall garage doors. The icon would change colors green for closed and red for open based on the sensor state. Clicking on the garage door icon would trigger the Zooz relay for the respective door and open or close it. Bonus points for the icon being able to show the door is opening or closing as well in some fashion.
This should get you what you want, minus showing the door in motion which you might be able to do leveraging the tamper/shock entity the ZSE43 creates, but that always seemed like more trouble than it was worth when I was using the devices.
The installer quoted me a Liftmaster with wifi, but it looks like that system requires cloud access and a smart-phone only app - it would not work with a web browsers. Plus there is no public APIs - the myq HA integration seems to break and/or is not complete (because Liftmaster has no public APIs, not because of issues with HA itself).
I purchased the Meross MSG100 WiFi opener. Spend the extra money and get the HomeKit version (MSG100HK), then use HA to control your door locally. Just be sure to check the compatibility info on their web site, because you may need an additional module to make it work properly with your opener; some Chamberlain openers (including LiftMaster) have been known to be incompatible right out of the box.
It costs more than a simple ESP relay but it can also detect if the door is open - it has a distance sensor, a bit weird as it requires the door be open some amount but it can also determine if a car is in your garage. And, you can attach a reed switch to tell if the door is open at all.
What electric opener system did you use with these? And how does it need to be wired up? Is it difficult?
Tempted to get these, as i need to get a new garage door but not sure what electric system is compatible with these ESP ones.
I actually used a D1 R2 board that I had. I have 2 garage doors so I used a dual relay board. I have a reed switch on each door and piggy backed the push button to the relays. I also added a DHT22 to give me a basement/humidity readings.
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old thread, but i hope i can get my question answered anyway.
I have managed to get my garage door to be visible in home app and i can open close the garage door via my iPhone, however, in CarPlay i get the garage door to pop up when close to my home, but the unit is stated as unavaliable so i cannot press the button in the car. if i look at my iphone at the same time, i can open and close. anyone know what to do?
in the car everything is working perfectly, i think it uses my iPhone data.
if i drive the car away from my house, my garage door button disappears, and when i return close to my house the button gets visible, so it seems to work, except that the button states (offline) due to the fact that i am not connected to my local wifi.
So i need to get HomeKit to talk outside my local wifi.
i am getting there
Hi, I saw fee topics about garage door - but could not find any that will explain how to configure HA - to show just an icon of garage that is open and if closed - icon of garage closed. I use Sonoff wifi controller - so I have already the sensor added.
Thanks All for the input! Really appreciate! I am trying to go with the option from @Markus99 with switch template. I have gone through step by step instructions how to setup a switch template. All is setup - but I could not find (sorry - I am very beginner:) how to link my sonoff entity (already existing on the list (switch.sonoff_1000dsdd4fs) to the cover.main_garage_door ?
if you have separate actions for open and close, you can use a state-switch to change the card based on the state of the door (which will allow you to set up two different cards with different actions).
I do this by checking if my phone is connected to my car through bluetooth.
For Android there is an attribute in the bluetooth connection sensor, that lists all connected devices. I would assume there is something similar with iPhones.
In this day of always on trackers for our phones etc I think having only one more app/device tracking us is not really a big deal. And it gives us more benefit than google or apple tracking us for pure ad revenue.
Why not to use the most reliable method; to sense if car is in the garage at the time of approaching home?
I use for this Sharp IR distance sensor located above the parking spot in garage + Fibaro Smart Implant, that can sense output voltage of IR distance sensor (but any module with capability to easure voltage can and integrates with HA can be used). As output voltage of sensor changes depending on car presence below sensor (distance to the floor is different that distance to car roof) it is 100% reliable and gives instant info about status. The only case when it does not work (for automation like you described) is when I dropped my car in service shop and my wife was driving me home :-).
I installed the homekit integration and it is working great. Just one small issue, I can only get my garage door to show up as a cover. I found an old thread where you can change the device class using the configuration.yaml, but is there any way to do it in lovelace?
If what you posted represents the contents of your customize.yaml file then the mistake is that it contains customize: on the first line. Remove it and shift the indentation of everything to the left by two spaces:
I connected a Shelly 2.5 to my regular shutter switches. Based on the time it goes up or down it can calculate the position. You could probably achieve the same with the state of the switch and some helpers, automations and a cover template.
Hi FPro,
my domotic system if from 2008 So if was designed to control shutters and garage doors from a simple wall button (and remote controller, just the garage). One click to close, one to stop, one to open (in loop sequence).
So when I connect it to HA I can do the same but I always have to check visually the status. Not so smart.