Thinking about replacing my two openers and want to tie those into my HomeKit world. With the recent news from Chamberlain, I’m looking for suggestions about other brands. Looks to me like the Meross WiFi opener and a not-smart opener might be the way to go (or just ignore the smart part since they all seem to be proprietary). I looked at Genie openers
Any suggestions?
Lol at the TailWind product. That unit can handle up to three openers and is very interoperable.
Any chance of being able to hard wire a controller into your network? If so, I highly recommend the iSmartgate Lite. It has a USB port, so you can add one of their USB to Ethernet adapters to hard wire it. I could never get a Meross opener I had to work consistently on wifi, so I went with the iSmartgate Lite and hard wired it. It’s been more than a year now and it has never failed me.
OTOH, if you only have wifi available, you can get the iSmartgate Pro that uses wifi and has a few other cool bells and whistles. It will work for multiple doors. If you go with the Lite version, you’ll need one controller for each door.
As for the opener itself, if you can get the door to open by shorting across the two connections from a wired switch, then pretty much any smart controller will work with it.
I went with Meross and integrated into Home Assistant. It was a super easy install.
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You can get Zigbee enabled relays for fairly cheap, if you have a network to connect it to. Otherwise if you know what you’re doing (and want to put the time into it) a raspberry pi pico/esp32 and a single channel relay will do what you want for under $30 (not including cost of hardware for a Home Assistant machine if you don’t have one). And you won’t have a proprietary thing to worry about.