myQ announces its Smart Garage Video Keypad

The myQ Smart Garage Video Keypad lets you see and control who opens your home’s busiest entryway.

#myQ #technews #smartgarage

https://techaeris.com/2023/06/13/myq-announces-its-smart-garage-video-keypad/

@peaz

I got sold on HomeBridge several months ago.

I am predominately a #SmartThings ecosystem, and needed to expand my coverage.

I spun up #HomeBridge in a container, and grabbed plug-ins for #SmartThings, #Miele, #NestCam, #HarmonyHub, #MyQ and #Ubiquiti #Unifi

Now everything is a bit more complete. My automations can follow me to my AppleTV, and IPhone. Bonus points that my garage door opener also appears on my CarPlay Home Screen too.

It’s important not to resist integrating across the various ecosystems, when you can make your life easier

My excitement over getting #MyQ on my garage has faded: no support for siri, ios shortcuts, alexa… annoyingly siloed

@nguerrera Unless it's changed recently, there are a few services you can connect to #MyQ for free. Offhand I forget which ones, but they're in their app. This and similar reasons are why my home automation is a heterogenous mess of services that, fortunately, do all work through my #SmartThings hub (pre-Matter, but that may help future devices).

A big 🖕to #myq and #tesla, who have finally enabled an integration that lets me control my garage door from the car…if I pay $45/yr for it.

I mean I can (and do!) make it work with location data from my phone and #homeassitant but the model of “we’ll build 2 walled gardens and then charge a subscription to connect them (badly and 5 years too late)” fills me with rage.