• jamiehs@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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?

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    1 year ago

    Oh, terrific.

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

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      1 year 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?

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    1 year ago

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