Early into my smart home journey I made the mistake of choosing a MyQ-G0301 to control the garage door. I have nothing against Chamberlain, but I regret this purchase since it requires internet access to work and is exposed to a third party. Leaving an entry point to my home exposed started to worry me when I was researching smart door locks.
Rather than replace the controller/hub with some other solution or updating the garage door opener that is as old as I am I chose to accept the risk of the hub being compromised. The worst thing that this hub can do is flash, beep, and send a signal to open/close the door. I don't have to care about the device sending the door open signal if the door opener is not powered on. I was able to accomplish this by adding a locally controlled HS103 TP Link smart outlet.
To make this as seamless as possible I have integrated it into existing automations that are triggered by my location. As soon as I leave my home area the outlet is turned off. As soon as I re-enter my home area the outlet is turned on and after a 15 minute delay it is tuned off. This only requires that I manually turn the outlet on in order to open the garage. I might have to look into smart buttons to more easily trigger this going forward.
Choosing to cut power to the garage door opener since I don't know how efficiently the MyQ would work if it was only powered on when I wanted to use it. Choosing this route also has the added benefit of not having to worry about anyone/thing else sending the open/close signal, which I know is not a big risk.
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