Buongiorno, Marco, qui la notizia sull'azienda per la quale fai "uso non autorizzato" dell'aprigarage che hai acquistato, se pretendi di usarlo per aprirci il tuo garage senza la sua app:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/ Chamberlain Group—the owner of most of the garage door opener brands like LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Merlin, and Grifco—would like its customers to stop doing smart home things with its “myQ” smart garage door openers. The company recently issued a statement decrying “unauthorized usage” of its smart garage door openers. That’s “unauthorized usage” by the people who bought the garage door opener, by the way. Basically, Chamberlain’s customers want to trigger the garage door and see its status through third-party smart home apps, and Chamberlain doesn’t want that. Here’s the statement: Chamberlain Group recently made the decision to prevent unauthorized usage of our myQ ecosystem through third-party apps. This decision was made so that we can continue to provide the best possible experience for our 10 million+ users, as well as our authorized partners who put their trust in us. We understand that this impacts a small percentage of users, but ultimately this will improve the performance and reliability of myQ, benefiting all of our users. We encourage those who were impacted to check out our authorized partners here: https://www.myq.com/works-with-myq. We caught wind of this statement through the Home Assistant blog, a popular open source smart home platform. The myQ integration is being stripped from the project because it doesn’t work anymore. Allegedly, Chamberlain has been sabotaging Home Assistant support for a while now, with the integration maintainer, Lash-L, telling the Home Assistant blog, “We are playing a game of cat and mouse with MyQ and right now it looks like the cat is winning.” Our immediate question is why would any garage opener company care about customers using its garage door opener. You sell garage door openers—isn’t usage the goal? A quick perusal through the app store reviews reveals what’s going on. The iOS app is sitting pretty at 4.8 stars, but the Android app has suffered a wave of one-star reviews starting in October. “Sadly, this app now displays advertisement at the very top and I cannot find a way to disable it,” writes one Play Store reviewer (Google doesn’t provide links to reviews). “This is very disturbing and on top of it, it moves my garage opening button out of the visible part of the screen. So to use it I now have to first look at the ads, then scroll down and hope to find my button.” Another user writes, “I don’t want ads in an app that I have already paid for the companion product.” Other one-star reviews mention things like, “I clicked door open/close event and it popped up the video storage subscription dialog to ask me to subscribe,” and, “Most of the app is dedicated to trying to upsell you on services and devices you don’t need.” Appena ho recuperato l'altro, te lo mando. A presto, Daniela ________________________________________ Da: nexa <[email protected]> per conto di M. Fioretti <[email protected]> Inviato: venerdì 24 ottobre 2025 05:29 A: [email protected] Oggetto: Re: [nexa] AWS crash causes $2, 000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 14:58:40 PM +0200, Daniela Tafani wrote: > Perché, altrimenti, l'unica app con cui posso attivare il mio > aprigarage dovrebbe impedirmi di aprire il mio garage se prima non > mi sorbisco un annuncio pubblicitario? > ... > avrai letto, ad esempio, quante persone devono restare pazientemente > all'interno della loro auto, pur avendo appena parcheggiato e > apprestandosi a uscire dal veicolo, perché un aggiornamento di un > software inessenziale di quello stesso veicolo li diffida dallo > spengere il motore. io no, non ho mai sentito ne' questa storia ne' quella degli aprigarage con spot obbligatorio incorporato. Link a entrambe le storie e prodotti per favore? Grazie, Marco?
