This whole myQ debacle has me thinking about possible solutions. I have my meross unit installed and sort of operational (alerts are working), just waiting on the accessory to actually open and close the door.
But I also started thinking how nice it would be if there were wifi (or zwave/zibee/matter) controlled wall switches and outdoor access keypads. This would eliminate the need to wire anything in and the solution would be super simple even for non technical people. If you can pair a garage remote, you could set something like this up. I’d love to be able to control my outdoor keypad and receive alerts all through Home Assistant, or whatever hub people use.
Seems like there’s a market here for smart wall switches and keypads, not just the smart addons as already done by meross, ratgdo and other similar solutions, they are close. Rather something non-wired and has physical buttons.,
I’ve searched but cannot find anything currently out there. Anyone know of existing products that fit this? Thoughts?
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I successfully used Meross with the chamberlain opener, by wiring it directly to the switch under the button.
If you open up the wired chamberlain wall switch, you’ll see there’s an SPST momentary contact button soldered onto the motherboard.
When you push the button it closes the two contacts on the left side of the switch. You can test this with a continuity or resistance test setting on your multimeter.
I soldered an additional pair of wires, one to each of these contacts, and then connected them to the Meross. In essence, when you trigger the Meross it “pushes” the button by closing the circuit.
Completely bypassed the Chamberlain nonsense.
Hope this helps. Sorry no pix.
Meross works great for me.
I don’t understand why it is so difficult to use the programmable button in the car or the MyQ app on the phone to open the door? Both work great for me…
I have my meross account linked to smartthings. That’s literally all you have to do. I have a wireless zigbee up/down switch that let’s need open and close the garage door. Or link your meross account to Alexa and control it with your voice from anywhere. Or both! Loads of combinations.
I’m quite confused on what you’re talking about here. There already are remotes and keypads for garage door openers. Literally every brand has them, and they’re usually included with the door opener.
When you say “control my outdoor keypad” you really lose me. What do you mean by “control”? What is an example of a thing you’d like to be able to do, specifically?
I’m essentially talking about making that outdoor keypad or an inside wall button to be a smart device. Right now if I want to change/add codes on my outdoor keypad, it requires going to the physical device, entering a key sequence and going through the pairing process. A smart keypad, you’d pair once and then control through wifi for additional changes. This also would allow control of the garage so at that point a ratgdo or meross device is not needed. These companies are most of the way there so they could just incorporate their solution into an outdoor keypad. Easier for meross since they already use wireless for specific models.
HomeAssistant. Once you get the server up and running, it’s a super simple app that can control (almost) everything. download it to the phone, then use your phone as an opener
Yep, already have that and a meross. I’m just thinking of other options beside the meross. A smart keypad would serve the purpose of this device but also add an easy configurable outdoor keypad. Kind of a two birds, one stone thing.
You can still use the myq fully local with home assistant.
Okay, I guess I’m completely missing the how-to on that one. My understanding was that this wasn’t possible and why it is causing such a mess that their is no local api. Do you have a link to a process for this?
I use a Tuya Zigbee garage door controller that I bought on AliExpress. It’s a very simple device, just a relay to control the door by bridging the button contacts, and it also comes with a wired door sensor to detect when the door is open. And it’s Zigbee, so fully local and no cloud service required. Works great with Zigbee2MQTT.