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Thank you to Home link for causing my garage door to crush my Lucid GGT glass roof, nailed the windscreen as well. I used Home link to open the garage door, but it must’ve sent a separate signal, which then closed the door right on the car. This is not the first time I’ve heard this happening. For one, I will NEVER use Home link again, better a regular clicker than that rotten software!!!

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To clarify, on entering my garage area, I pressed Home link to open the garage door, but nothing happened. So I pressed it again, then the garage door opened. But as I was right underneath, it closed and smashed the glass roof. This would never happen with the MyQ app, which causes the garage door to sound warning beeps for at least three seconds before starting to close. For now, I will stick with using a clicker!
 
My purpose in writing this is to warn everyone about using Homelink, and to ask Lucid to use a different app, such as myQ.
 
Sorry for your glass roof. I had a near similar experience. I had auto activate turned on, was maneuvering my car into my garage sideways to ceramic coat it, luckily I realized the door was closing and clicked the stop close. It nearly closed on my car. Needless to say the feature is well intended but unfortunately risks outweigh the benefits.
 
Chesapeake said:
My purpose in writing this is to warn everyone about using Homelink, and to ask Lucid to use a different app, such as myQ.
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While I feel your pain, you can get MyQ or Homelink-style garage door openers to do the same thing. With my garage door opener and my Tesla, I can press the icon, see it start the animated sequence, but have it do nothing. I press it a second time and there is a small lag. If I confuse this for another non-functioning press of the icon and decide to return to the garage for whatever (stupid) reason, I could get the same result you did. MyQ has a better interface that shows the direction of motion of the garage door, but I wouldn't trust it either. Better to slightly pause and make sure the garage door is not coming down before entering.

OTOH, the Lucid, for me, because it has a much stronger signal than my legacy Model X, opens the garage door from a distance. This means that when I approach the garage, the door has already been opened for a little bit, so I feel safer overall. In short, not sure that this is a Lucid issue rather than a driver-beware issue on any modern vehicle.
 
This sucks, but: does your garage door not have an obstruction sensor? If not, that is both against code and extremely unsafe.

To me, this is so important I upgraded my sensor to an infinity shield

I’m not trying to “victim blame” but this is a very important oversight. Kids and pets have been killed this way.
 
borski said:
This sucks, but: does your garage door not have an obstruction sensor? If not, that is both against code and extremely unsafe.

To me, this is so important I upgraded my sensor to an infinity shield

I’m not trying to “victim blame” but this is a very important oversight. Kids and pets have been killed this way.
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And to hammer this home; my daughter and I (me probably trying to save my daughter) would have been crushed yesterday if my garage door didn't have obstruction sensor. I am glad it did. This is a must for anyone with garage.
 
borski said:
This sucks, but: does your garage door not have an obstruction sensor? If not, that is both against code and extremely unsafe.
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The photo-eye sensors are only about 4–6 inches off the ground. It’s obvious from the photo that the door started closing after he was already halfway into the garage. Given the Gravity has about 7 inches of ground clearance, how were the sensors supposed to detect the vehicle?
 
FirstLucidFL said:
The photo-eye sensors are only about 4–6 inches off the ground. It’s obvious from the photo that the door started closing after he was already halfway into the garage. Given the Gravity has about 7 inches of ground clearance, how were the sensors supposed to detect the vehicle?
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This is why I recommend an infinity shield. It’s cheap and provides fantastic protection.

But also: I wasn’t there, so I can’t say. That’s why I asked if they have an obstruction sensor. I have learned the hard way that not everyone does, and some people unplug it because they “find it annoying.”
 
FooFighter said:
How do you turn it on? Does it mean the homelink will activate and the door will open as you approach?
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That is not a first party feature in either the Air or Gravity.
 
FirstLucidFL said:
The photo-eye sensors are only about 4–6 inches off the ground. It’s obvious from the photo that the door started closing after he was already halfway into the garage. Given the Gravity has about 7 inches of ground clearance, how were the sensors supposed to detect the vehicle?
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I set my sensors to the same height as the most rear part of the back bumper: 18 inches in the case of my AT. I learned with my old Lexus that if the sensors are set below the bumper the door will scrape the bumper when trying to maximize the space in front of the car.
 
Sorry this happened. I am curious as to what the cost of the rear glass was...
 
borski said:
This is why I recommend an infinity shield. It’s cheap and provides fantastic protection.

But also: I wasn’t there, so I can’t say. That’s why I asked if they have an obstruction sensor. I have learned the hard way that not everyone does, and some people unplug it because they “find it annoying.”
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Crazy never heard of that, that looks cool!
 
Lycra said:
Crazy never heard of that, that looks cool!
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It’s also a small business, so I like supporting them. They’ve improved it since I bought mine, too.

My favorite part is it’s “simple.” It is just a couple wires, not “smart,” and just replaces the existing sensor directly (we actually still have ours up, just disconnected, because I was lazy).

Because of the ratgdo I also have installed, it handles the “smarts” and is the connected device, and the sensor does its simple job - it’s just a sensor. :)

As a result, I have literally never had it fail. It also has an audible beep (which you can turn off if you hate it) to let you know when something is in its beams, so I use it to know if I’m far enough into the garage for the door to close.

Basically, I recommend it highly. :)
 
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