The BMW Thread

[Eric]

1) don’t want to pay a monthly fee
2) they’re scummy - about a year ago they intentionally bricked third party bridges to HomeKit and other similar ecosystems, so they can make even more money. This also means they don’t work with HomeKit triggers; etc.
3) a physical button to open the door is nicer than touchscreen
4) one of my cars has no support for myq


What I have done; though, is take an old secure+ wall button and solder wires to the switch poles, and then connect those wires to a Meross HomeKit garage door adapter. I also attached the 365lm to those wires. So I can open the door via Siri or CarPlay, as well as with my old car which doesn’t support CarPlay or yellow button home link.

Essentially I added a standard dry contact interface to my brand new myQ opener; because fuck myQ and their business model.

Just to use a freaking garage door opener, absolutely ridiculous. I've programmed my Liftmaster into my i4 and fortunately had no issues but if it wouldn't have worked I would have simply used the controller clipped into my visor, in fact I still do for my wife's new X5, this is the sort of thing that's not worth over engineering IMO, the clicker works great.

 

[Cmaier]

this is the sort of thing that's not worth over engineering IMO,

How dare you.

Knowing that somewhere there’s some CEO who thinks he stymied me from carplay’ing my garage door without paying him, but that I defeated his evil plans, is well worth the over-engineering (and the $42 I spent on the Meross. Though now I see Meross will even send you their own dry-contact adapter for free if you ask them for it, so it’s gotten even easier since when I did all this)

 

[Yoused]

These things are beyond me. I get out of my car and deal with the door manually. My car has 3 door buttons, on the ceiling above the mirror, but not only have I never used them, but I probably never will. I mean, if I sell this car before I die, it would be better not to have my garage doors programmed into it (one more thing to forget to clear out).

 

[diamond.g]

Just to use a freaking garage door opener, absolutely ridiculous. I've programmed my Liftmaster into my i4 and fortunately had no issues but if it wouldn't have worked I would have simply used the controller clipped into my visor, in fact I still do for my wife's new X5, this is the sort of thing that's not worth over engineering IMO, the clicker works great.

I like knowing that my garage door is closed or open. Though I don’t pay monthly (the phone app is still free).

 

[Eric]

I like knowing that my garage door is closed or open. Though I don’t pay monthly (the phone app is still free).

MyQ already has that built in for free, we have alerts setup for ours.

 

[Cmaier]

MyQ already has that built in for free, we have alerts setup for ours.

So much nicer to bridge to homekit. I have it set up so that if the garage door opens the garage lights turn on for at least 10 minutes, or longer if motion is sensed in the garage, for example. I say “siri, lock up” and the garage door closes, front and back doors lock, etc. When the last of me, my daughter, or my wife leaves the house, the garage door closes automatically if necessary. etc.

And when i bought the garage door opener, MyQ even sold their own little box to make all that work with homekit. Then they realized they could make more money by breaking all that.

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[Herdfan]

I like knowing that my garage door is closed or open. Though I don’t pay monthly (the phone app is still free).

Use it for that all the time.

Because I ended up with something I vowed to never have again. And that is a garage door I can’t see in my rear view mirror as I drive away.

Two houses ago, I couldn’t see the garage door as I drove away in the morning. So at least once a week I would back down the street to verify. Next house I could see the door as I drove away, so all good.

Current house. Nope, can’t see it. But the app comes to the rescue because I can simple look on my watch.

 

[Citysnaps]

I have a woodshop in my garage and park our cars in the driveway. Problem solved.

I do have a jackshaft-mounted Liftmaster opener and like that a lot. Our door is oversized/heavy and the opener opens/closes it effortlessly.