Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers – again
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by saltcured
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As an aside, when I was a kid, people had the idea that it was unsafe to operate a garage door opener outside of visual range, since the operator had a responsibility to make sure it was safe. It's interesting how that idea vanished and now it is just about monetizing convenience.
The same way we can glue a tilt-sensor to a garage door to integrate with a random home alarm or automation system, isn't the end game here to just glue on a little networked actuator that presses the wall-mounted door button inside the garage?
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