Alex Kretzschmar18h ago

Liftmaster hates this one simple trick! Security+ 3.0? HACKED! (OK not really).

I had a spare remote and have wired it up to two relays powered by #esphome so I can open my garage doors in #homeassistant without the stupid myq cloud crap

My house. My hardware. My way! As it should be.

Also, yay. Go Artemis II !

Show threadParadroyd17h ago
@ironicbadger I did something kind of similar in 2015 with a Raspberry PiB (V1) and a Piface Digital hat.I have the relays on this thing wired in parallel with the wall buttons for my garage doors.
I didn't have Home assistant back then (I was still running a Vera+) there's basically a python script that runs a simple web server and brings in the Piface Digital library.
When I go to the proper URL, with the proper querystring, it activates the proper relay, and opens the associated garage door.
Show threadParadroyd17h ago
@ironicbadger I could call that URL/querystring from the Vera+ using Lua (the Vera+ did everything in Lua) or I could just access the URLs directly from browser shortcuts on my phone.
The Vera+ has long since been retired and replaced with Home Assistant, But that Pi B1 is still out there in my garage rafters, doing that same job it has for about 11 years now.
I've thought about replacing it with something like an ESP8266 tied directly into Home Assistant, but it works fine as is.
Show threadParadroyd

@ironicbadger One of the things I like about the older Pis as opposed to the newer ones..they don't need active cooling. Fans are a big point of failure. This thing doesn't need one.

The other thing is, older Pis have a FULL SIZED HDMI port. I hate micro HDMI..very finicky.

Kind of irrelevant in this case since I just access it over ssh, but that's been one of my beefs with the newer pis.

Apr 11 at 3:26amWeb