i have a 84505R Liftmaster garage door opener and they've fscked with the MyQ API so much that i can't use #HomeKit via MyQ and need to go with a #RATGDO device or similar, but because my opener is a 84505R and therefore has a "yellow learn button" (lol?) i am told i need An Adapter but not what Adapter that might be.
this is the hanging chad of my #householdIT that persists and i am determined to figure it out without buying a new opener. and you can help! if you have any ideas lmk 
#iot
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We're still definitely at the gaffer tape, bendy mirrors, and magic smoke stage of making #smarthome tech behave in any sane way for people who aren't terminally tech-oriented
About half of everything works just fine, and the other half requires wiring a heap of potentially unreliable open-source projects together behind the scenes.
Add on to that an attempt at de- #shittification by removing various Google owned devices and services and it's extra fun.
Right now, our smart home stack consists of Home Assistant, #HomeKit (Apple) with #HomeBridge supplying some services, legacy Google/Nest things and devices from a couple of key vendors and a handful-and-a-half of others with one or two devices. .
I'm happy to faff about with this stuff in my spare time to make things work, but making something useful and usable for a person with multiple disabilities who relies on a voice assistant and a partner who doesn't have the bandwidth to play around in #HomeAssistant isn't straightforward by any means.
Before I go old testament on this #ecobee for dropping their API access, are there any known workarounds for integrating it with #HomeAssistant without relying on #HomeKit ?
I have a basic stat that supports #ZWave, but would lose out on the remote probes feature which sadly I'm pretty invested in.
Hmm, maybe someone has written a system to replicate the ecobee's remote probes features within HA using generic temperature sensors?
Grateful for any suggestions.
People who know smart home and #HomeKit stuff: I have a couple Level Lock+, uh, locks and a very #Apple ecosystem with a current Apple TV 4K. I can already control them with Siri even away from home. Is there value in upgrading these locks to Matter? #LevelLock
Anyone know if there’s a way to remove Matter support from a #HomeKit and #PhilipsHue setup?
Apparently Matter’s current implementation is the reason Siri no longer understands Hue scenes; I guess Matter doesn’t support something about them yet. But that kinda defeats the entire point of having Hue lights and scenes, right?
Is there a way to somehow remove Matter from lights and the hub in a home? #Apple
ME: Dog-dammit, #WUnderground is really slow as an #IFTTT trigger!
OTHER ME: Use the #Ecobee external temperature sensor instead.
ME: But #HomeKit says I don't have one of those!
OTHER ME: HomeKit is a lying whore.
IFTTT: True fact. (Offers access to sensor.)
#FRAN
@mark I bought two of the RatGDO boards to work with #HomeAssistant and they have been basically flawless. Apparently they work with #HomeKit as well, you just flash different firmware.
This was to get around Chamberlain blocking Home Assistant from their APIs. I was skeptical about wiring these weird little boards to these big machines but they've been great.
@flyingsaceur @ClickyMcTicker thanks to both of you. the changes i've made haven't seemed to solve the problem though. i have now plugged in my previous wifi hardware (AmpliFi HD mesh) and put it into bridge mode and announcing another IOT SSID and i put the two bulbs from the 12yo's room back into #Meross App but they don't make it over into Home.app.
next i will add them directly as HomeKit devices on the that same secondary IOT SSID and see how that goes now.
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