Awesome Tips Nothing EVER Works! – Making a dumb door smart
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Trying to make my old school garage door openers “smart” has left me with a multi-year-long nightmare of different solutions that never all worked properly. Today, we fix it for good with the help of HomeAssistant and Pulseway.
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My Tesla has Homelink, that geographically determines if I’m close to my garage, I can either press the on screen button that pops up when I get home, or voice command it to say “open garage.” No soldering, no extra work.
Don't you have homelink? I agree with not carrying a remote, but homelink in a car is quite satisfying.
sounds like you should have just attached the garage opener fob to your car keychain.
What I REALLY needed from this video is the Home Assistant part. How did you set up a script to do this?
obfuscating things like "hey google" (2:55) is such a helpful thing to do in videos, had to change the activation words for voice activated things when watching youtube so they dont keep going off.
IMHO, Hubitat (HE) is superior to Home Assistant. I've had my MyQ opener integrated/automated for years now without using the MyQ API or any subscription services or that huge mess of stuff used in the (great) video. You can run relay control at the opener itself. It does have a hook to Alexa for voice control to close OR open and can also work with presence sensing. FWIW, HE also just released integration with HomeKit if you're into that sort of of Apple stuff.
I like homekit
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11:40 lol that's so unnecessary
Came from Home Assisanr
Bro, just use a garage door opener. People break into your house a ton of various ways man. Gonna remove all of your windows in the house? Make every single door indestructible? You kinda reached for content in this one imo. Your trying to create a more difficult way to do something really simple. I understand the idea of having your home be a certain way, but i mean… eh. Saying that garage door fobs are "how people break into your house" is kinda random. Ive never heard of someone breaking into someone elses home that way. Im sure its happened but sounds like you just wanted a reason to make mor ehome upgrades.
Should be required watching for everyone who dares to tout a new "internet of things" "innovation"
Imagine being this guy’s neighbor and his garage is freaking out again.
Why not just buy a working used garage door unit and retrofit to replace the broken one?
Ya too lazy to push a button?
Nice thing about my tplink router it has a dns service built in
And I thought I had it bad with these companies tryna milk us…
Such a noob. "I can't even…" You're way over thinking.
#youneedluxone
So when the house gets sold…
Wonder how easily this could've been done using an ESP8266 and ESPHome integration on Home Assistant.
Whyyyyyy does he call it volt garage door. My assistant would not get it every time. Just call them " open door one" open door two".
You could have just bought a 30 dollar meross garage door opener. Works with HomeKit, Amazon, and Google voice assistants. And ifttt. Even works with chamberlain, just have to ask for their adapter.
Linus: * rants about automatic garage door *
Me: * laughs in giant, heavy metal door *
you can change the log out settings to keep you logged in
You could (not ideal, but it's the solution I chose for a project a while ago…) use a servo on the physical button of the garage door to actually press them. And use some kind of force sensor on the floor beneath the door to physically check the status of the garage door. That way it is also applicable to any brand 😁. Although this does work for now! and it is less likely to need replacement components like the servos which could break
while I appreciate all this, HomeBridge is way easier to manage/set up. none of the port forwarding/dns/domain name set up. This could have been mentioned in the comments but since there are 10K comments, I probably missed it.
I just use a key
I really can't stand IFTTT. Has never ever been worth it to me
So much money, but also so many problems.
The regular gate controller being a liability, by being left in the car and getting the code copied and people being able to enter your home, is easy to fix, just make the door from the garage to the main house be always locked, only being able to open without a key, from the house side, and since you're always going to go through the garage when you're with your car, just keep that key on the same keychain as the car keys, done fixed.
No need for thousand of dollars in equipment, being relying on a phone that might be dead, setting up another account, more usernames more passwords, several days of stress and the doors opening and closing in the middle of the night.
Complexity is overrated.
Option E) mount a mechanical solenoid above the button in the garage and use that to press the button. Solves your interference problems and is future proof. $10 solenoid and some $2 L brackets would have gotten you there
OH MY GOD WHY IS THIS UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED!!!
To save $10, linus spends $420.69. ahhh that beats paying subscription fees
The entire time I was watching that I was like, huh, I wonder if they use HomeAssistant to fix all this stuff. Does Linus know about HA? oh he does! Huzzah!
The way i dealt with this was a raspberry pi with a relay board attached to it(simply because I didn't have a wireless relay) connected to a remote control of the gates inside the home that was opened up and had the relays connected where the buttons are. an app on my phone to sends a request to my raspberry pi to activate them, to which I added support for android auto.
…My Tesla Model 3 & Y automatically opens/closes the door when I approach or leave. It is GPS linked and sends the signal when I'm about 30' from the door. Works perfectly. I can also use the Tesla app to open/close the door by using the car's transmitter. Slick stuff!
SO LINUS WHATS THE SOULTION
Halfway through video the old simple switch begun to sound so freaking amazing
this video is such a perfect example of 1st world problems.