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I have to turn off the geofenced automatic features on my Teslas years ago. Sometimes, one of our Teslas would be parked in the front of the house, and if you drive off. The garage door would automatically open at the back of the house. Have Chamberlain IQ setup, so it would tell me the garage door was open via a phone and email alert, and I can close it remotely. but it gets annoying. So all geofencing automatic open/close is now OFF on all cars.

-iThinkEV-

iThinkEV said:

I have to turn off the geofenced automatic features on my Teslas years ago. Sometimes, one of our Teslas would be parked in the front of the house, and if you drive off. The garage door would automatically open at the back of the house. Have Chamberlain IQ setup, so it would tell me the garage door was open via a phone and email alert, and I can close it remotely. but it gets annoying. So all geofencing automatic open/close is now OFF on all cars.

-iThinkEV-

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Yeah, that's what I had happen in past and why I had no interest in using this mode. Just wanted the ability to open and close the door with a press of a button. Honestly, half the time I just tell Siri on my apple watch to open or close the door as I'm coming and going anyway.

9point81 said:

Yeah, that's what I had happen in past and why I had no interest in using this mode. Just wanted the ability to open and close the door with a press of a button. Honestly, half the time I just tell Siri on my apple watch to open or close the door as I'm coming and going anyway.

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For me, the benefit of automatically opening/closing is very small, and the worries about leaving the door open is extremely high. So I really just want a setup that only opens/closes when I'm hitting the button and watching the door do it's thing. I don't drive off until the door has stopped moving, and I'm sure it's closed. I've actually considered getting an interior nest cam in the garage, to enable me to verify the door closed properly without me watching it. My paranoia derives from more than one experience of something blocking the photobeam on the garage door, and preventing it from closing.

TahoeMichael said:

For me, the benefit of automatically opening/closing is very small, and the worries about leaving the door open is extremely high. So I really just want a setup that only opens/closes when I'm hitting the button and watching the door do it's thing. I don't drive off until the door has stopped moving, and I'm sure it's closed. I've actually considered getting an interior nest cam in the garage, to enable me to verify the door closed properly without me watching it. My paranoia derives from more than one experience of something blocking the photobeam on the garage door, and preventing it from closing.

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Newer Chamberlain can connect to the internet. It seems to be reliably know the status of the door. Your can check and control it from your phone app as needed. Also, they are defaulted to automatically close the door after a set duration (1 minute or you can set longer)

For older ones, you can buy a $30 add-on hub and sensor to connect it to the internet.

Smart Garage® Control | myQ

Chamberlain can burn in hell

Had one, then they removed API support so it could no longer easily be connected to (unless you used their app; they removed support for third-party platforms). They offered a Homekit bridge, then took that away too. I used to use Homebridge before switching to HA, and it stopped working as soon as they pulled 3rd part support. They basically took away a bunch of connectivity options in order to lock you into their system.

I went to a Meross (which comes with wires and sensors for garage door state) and natively connects to Homekit (I am a Homekit/IOS user). Easy install and works perfectly, including remotely via Homekit's Home app or Siri (Or Alexa or Google assistant - I sometimes use the former). You know/can ask weather the door is open or closed if that's a concern. Ratgdo and others can do similar (I had a ratgdo, worked fine, just a personal preference for Meross for my use cases).

Everyone has different use cases, for me, I just think Chamberlain's business practices suck and they would be my last choice. Now if you want to know how I really feel about Chamberlain......

Tâm said:

Newer Chamberlain can connect to the internet. It seems to be reliably know the status of the door. Your can check and control it from your phone app as needed. Also, they are defaulted to automatically close the door after a set duration (1 minute or you can set longer)

For older ones, you can buy a $30 add-on hub and sensor to connect it to the internet.

Smart Garage® Control | myQ

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That is myQ, not Homelink. MyQ sucks, and charges subscription fees to use their API. I used to have it - technically, I still do.

Use a ratgdo or similar. It is not harder to set up, and has no ongoing costs.