Honda and Acura add garage door control to Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

big_slap, 8 months ago

is this what getting old feels like? over complicating something so they can charge for it? 🥲

RxBrad, 8 months ago

Oh, terrific.

Let’s just make every single functionality in cars be a separate paid subscription service.

ostsjoe, 8 months ago

Why does this only work in Hondas? What about this cares about the car?

jamiehs, 8 months ago

Nothing about this story makes sense; you’ve asked a great question. Isn’t CarPlay/Android auto usually manufacturer agnostic when it comes to the features included? Wasn’t that the whole point of it?

jamiehs, 8 months ago

Chamberlain Group’s myQ Connected Garage service

Ahh yes, myQ; the service that is randomly up and down when you need it the most.

I had a Chamberlain myQ garage door opener and I hated it. I hated everything about it. It was slow, unreliable, the button doesn’t use a simple open/close contact for triggering the door (so you can’t easily DIY a solution with a relay board); and it just didn’t work half the time because “the cloud!”

$129 for 3 years? For what? For < 10 API requests per day? That’s insane.

Don’t most modern cars (the type that have CarPlay in them) also have programmable garage door buttons on the rear-view mirror?

LanyrdSkynrd, 8 months ago

For my Honda Accord you needed to buy a dealer installed addon(called home link IIRC) to get the garage door buttons.

Home Assistant works pretty well with Android Auto. If I had a garage door I’d connect it to HA with esphome and access it that way.

jamiehs, 7 months ago

Here’s the other fucking shoe dropping guys: arstechnica.com/…/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage…