Lift master MyQ and Homelink on the CT?

[mstatkus]

MyQ has been ok but couple warnings (2 cars use it)-
1. Washing the car can often lead to that “closing in x feet” and you need to watch that. Sends the message to close the garage door as you’re driving in - at least a slight risk.
2. I periodically have to keep re-linking myQ and it’s irritating. Not sure what the cause is.
3. Network Error has Occurred - some issue with cell/wifi I think but as I’ve left I’ve had it not send the command.

Debugging - I’ve seen it where I put it in park, then back in drive the network reset and then I can issue the close manually.

I’d say it’s 80% awesome, 20% irritating. Just have to watch it and deal with these tech hurdles.
Also a case where sometimes it just closes and other times it does this beeping / blinking light then closes. Not sure why the difference.

Also - I have 4 Doors. This was a carport conversion to a garage. I actively use 2 rear doors for the cars. You simply set the door “set garage location” then desired distance to close/open and chime if you want to hear it. UI does show “Opening in x feet” or “closing in x feet”.

UI gives you a QR Code to re-sync your car via your myQ phone app. But like I said I’ve had some mixed behaviors with it sticking.


myQ made a hub which is what I had that supported 4. I found later you could buy the newer white one that only seemed to support 2. So in order to get more sensors for my other doors I got the white hub w/ sensor for $19 at home depot. Sensors by themselves were like $29 lol.

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[cofree]

MyQ is great when it works, bad when it doesn't.

The good:
MyQ knows whether the door is open or closed. So you can set the garage to auto-open when you get home and it won't accidentally close if it was already open. The previous feature with homelink was broken as when you turn up with two teslas at the same time one car would open the door and the other would close it when the first car is halfway into the garage and the beem isn't broken.
Also you can get amazon to deliver into your garage.
Also the whole family has the app on their phones.

The bad:
It doesn't work with a bunch of gates and things like that.
We have multiple homes on multiple myq accounts... I haven't figured out how to log onto multiple myq accounts from the one tesla.
One of our homes had an old myq garage door which it didn't work with, and couldn't use the myq bridge.

Theoretically if your garage has myq you are set.
Otherwise there is a $20 box on amazon which worked for us in one home.
but in one home we ended up buying a new garage door opener setup from costco I think, and so now we get myq and battery backup and everything new.

 

[TECH49]

I have a MY and MS with Homelink. Truck without, so I use the remote.

This is just one of those Tesla things that makes no sense to me to not at least give us the option we had on the MY, on which it is an option. I just shake my head when I think the main benefit to Tesla is a few dollars from MyQ at best and the lack of an already engineered part. For this, they just get at best, somewhat irritated set of customers, and few happy ones, when they could all be happy.

I'm pretty sure most truck owners put MyQ in the too-hard pile and just use a remote.

 

[BeFamousVideo]

Newbe Tesla owner question - my neighbor has a model Y and can open his garage door by programming the Y from his existing garage remote using the industry standard Homelink system (my 2023 Subaru does the same thing). No buttons - the Y interface is setup so the garage door opens as he gets close. All I can find on the CT is the Liftmaster MyQ - which requires a subscription from Liftmaster (and a Liftmaster system too - lol)

Does the CT have home link? If so I can’t find it

I also wasn't happy about the required subscription that is required for the MyQ. I preferred the HomeLink method. I did however subscribe to MyQ but within a few weeks cancelled due to the latency and false notifications I received from MyQ about my garage door being opened while I was away. In one of those occasions I was able to reach a gardener at my house to verify I did in fact close the garage. Other situations were me sitting on the driveway waiting for the MyQ system to open the garage. It all added up to a system I was not willing to pay for. Now I use the old fashioned method of pressing a button on a remote clipped to my visor. Works every time.

 

[docowen]

I have the MyQ and have been pretty happy with it. One odd thing it does is when I close the garage door after backing out half of the time it just closes right away and half of the time it does the flashing garage lights and beeping before and during closing. I haven’t been able to figure out what makes it choose how it closes the garage door.

 

[Balthezor]

Couldn’t get a better option.
Finally settled on a tiny garage door remote off of Amazon. It disappears in the phone charging (phone heating) bays.

Whcih remote did you get?

 

[Liver]

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