Garage door control stopped working at some point

[hart2hart]

Do you think there is a design issue in HW preventing a fix via FW?

[Goose66]

I'm not sure. I am using dry contact mode and don't experience the problems that show up in the Security+ 2.0 openers. But at least according to @sjenkins the ESPHome firmware works (better), and the MQTT firmware hasn't been changed in 3 months, whereas the ESPHome firmware was updated 3 weeks ago. So looking to see if there was an easy way to interface with the ESPHome firmware instead of the MQTT firmware seemed prudent.

[gzahar]

After this happened the second time to me, I was going to report the problem. This was before there were many others reporting this issue, so I didn’t know if it was just my device or not. Anyway, first I wanted to try to figure out how often this was happening. To do that, I created a program to ‘blink’ the light on the GDO when it detected I was in the garage. I was hoping this would allow me to catch when the control stopped working as I don’t normally use the that feature often. That has been at least several months ago and it has not ‘locked up’ since I did this. It may be very premature to say this, but it seems that if you send control on a regular basis, the problem doesn’t happen.
I would be interested to hear if others that have the problem use their control feature daily?

[dbwarner5]

@Goose66 This whole thread started when MyQ broke general access to their API.

I just noticed that Ring and MyQ are teamed up such that I can now access MyQ in the Ring app. 

Since we have a Ring NS, can that be a work around to get access to the MyQ data in the Ring app? 

[hart2hart]

1 hour ago, gzahar said:

After this happened the second time to me, I was going to report the problem. This was before there were many others reporting this issue, so I didn’t know if it was just my device or not. Anyway, first I wanted to try to figure out how often this was happening. To do that, I created a program to ‘blink’ the light on the GDO when it detected I was in the garage. I was hoping this would allow me to catch when the control stopped working as I don’t normally use the that feature often. That has been at least several months ago and it has not ‘locked up’ since I did this. It may be very premature to say this, but it seems that if you send control on a regular basis, the problem doesn’t happen.
I would be interested to hear if others that have the problem use their control feature daily?

I had wondered the same thing.  Just got them reflashed and working so I'm going to create programs that turn their lights on/off in middle of light a couple times to see how long until it happens again

[sjenkins]

per @Goose66 , my multi-device set-up with the homeESP version & HA has been solid for a month now.  One day I am going to come back to it and simplify with a plugin, but for now I am pretty happy.