ratgdo garage door controller

Half the conversations in this sub over the last month have been about myq replacements. Ratgdo is probably the most popular

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Got mine installed, 3d printed a case and it went easy peasy. So glad I can remove the MyQ integration.

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Ratgdo is compatible with Security 1.0 and 2.0+, which the Shelly relay isn’t (without soldering to the contacts on a Chamberlain switch or remote). In addition to that, Ratgdo provides feedback about the door status. Which a Shelly can’t do without an additional sensor. And then on top of all that, it exposes a bunch of other stuff the Shelly doesn’t (light control, partial door opening, obstruction and motion sensors). By the time you bought a Shelly and a sensor, you could have just gotten a Ratgdo. Totally worth it to me.

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I expose it through the HomeKit integration so I get a Garage Door icon on my dash in Carplay.

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If you’re on the fence about the ratgdo device, let me put your mind at ease!. I have a MyQ garage door opener in my rented condo. Because it’s a rent, the landlords do not want me to tie the garage to my own account. I presume this is for security reasons when/if I move out. So I have been trying to figure out how to automate my garage for about a year now. I tried hooking up a Shelly relay to the garage door opener switch on the wall. That ended up being finicky at best, but ultimately didn’t work well. I was tempted to give up after a while and just get a switchbot, but something in the …

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MyQ drew their line in the sand. Get yourself a RATGDO and never look back. Got it integrated in HA within minutes of opening the package. It’s also very simple to create automations to open/close garage when leaving/arriving home.

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My garage door broke last winter and that's exactly what I did when Chamberlain broke the HA integration. Installed a RatGDO, blacklisted the MyQ controller from my network, and haven't had a problem since.

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… Assistant compatible, but Inovelli are my absolute favorite. I have probably 30 Blue Series switches in my home and they're fantastic. Another would be my RatGDOs

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RATGDO + Home Assistant + CarPlay is a dream come true. I don't have to deal with my extremely unreliable RF remote anymore and I can see on my radio if the door is closed or let someone in from anywhere.

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I'd look into ratgdo (rage against the garage door opener). Super easy to setup

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The RatGDO has been absolutely solid for me. Haven't had to touch it since I installed it on my Crafstman unit. You're also able to tell the garage to open to a certain percentage, see stats like the number of motor cycles, lock out the remotes from Home Assistant, and use the opener light and the motion sensor on your button as a light/sensor in HA for automations. This household is (except for me) an Apple one, so we have the opener exposed via homekit and the iOS users can ask siri or use CarPlay to open it from outside the home thanks to a homepod mini bridge. I believe there are tunnels …

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Garage door opener. Ratgdo if you have a Chamberlain. Or diy with dry contact switch (I use Sonoff MiniD) and a door/window sensor. Once you have it set up as a cover template in ha, you can open and close from the ha app in Carplay or Android Auto. If you have an iPhone, push it to homekit with the ha homekit bridge. Then carplay will automatically show the button when you are within about 1km of your house.

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… devices are those that will potect my home from major issues: zoos titan water valve actuator automatically closing when a leak sensor detects a leak, ratgo garage door closing at night incase I forget to close it, zoos zen55 co2/smoke detector and an automation to send me an email incase it detects something. Probably my biggest ones.

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I got RatGDO devices for both my Chamberlain MyQ opener and an ancient opener that doesn't even have a remote (neither were my choice, they were installed by the previous owner). The RatGDO devices work perfectly in both configurations ("smart" and dry contact, respectively). The only thing I'm missing is the ability to control the ancient opener from the programmable garage door buttons in my car but I'm considering getting a separate receiver that I can plug into my HA server to fix that. Bottom line is that you can get a fairly cheap GDO and use the RatGDO in dry contact configuration to …

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The ones I'm actively using at the moment are: * ratgdo is really widely used and very awesome for taking over your garage door with 100% local control and almost every feature of the various proprietary cloud-based solutions. * esphome-econet is a project I work on which lets you control a variety of Rheem appliances with a very easy hardware setup - this is a very good 1st ESPHome project while still feeling like you DIY'd. * upsky-desky let's you control your standing desk with an ESPHome controller. If that sounds totally unnecessary...it absolutely is!

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i actually respectfully disagree with this. you want to pick a garage door opener that is good. most of them suck with integration that isn’t locked in but you can fix that with a ratgdo which is easy to install. pick a garage door with the best hardware that works the best as a garage door (chamberlain, liftmaster, etc). use ratgdo to make it home assistant compatible. https://ratcloud.llc

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Older openers do that. Newer ones with Security+ require a code sent along those terminals; that's where RatGDO shines. But if you're going to use a remote, and take it out of its original case, why not just short the terminals that the button press would do with a relay (like the Shelly 1) and save the mechanical delay and wear?

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… whole new motor unit or something to connect your existing motor to home assistant? If the latter and you have a chamberlain/liftmaster, I’d recommend the RATGDO. It will work with most other units as well but the chamberlain integration allows for open/closed status and other features

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Ratgdo is flawless

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I'd go RatGDO. It's really designed for Home Assistant first, so it will have the most features and the best possible integration. It's also important to mention that a lot of the devices out there for automating garage doors do not support Security + 1.0/2.0 out of the box, which the RatGDO does

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UPDATE: Garage door auto open/close. Some folks asked for an update to my garage auto open/close project that I was doing with a bluetooth beacon and ratgdo so here it is. After about a week of testing and dialing everything in I can now with 100% success rate have my garage open when we are on the way home and close after we leave without us having to do anything. What I used to make this happen: ratgdo (Rage Against The Garage Door Opener) - I installed this esp32 based piece of hardware in-line with my garage door opener. I bought it from ratcloud llc and it was extremely straight forward …

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The problem For the HomeKit integration, the garage door state incorrectly shows (in the iOS Home App), a state of "closing" when the door is transitioning to the Open state, and a state of "opening" when the door is transitioning to the closed state. It appears this may be simply a case of the HomeKit integration having incorrectly swapped the values of "opening" and "closing". The HomeAssistant LogBook on the garage door web page does show the correct transition state of "opening" when transitioning to Open, and "closing" when transitioning to Close. ### What version of Home Assistant Core …

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The problem Since updating to Core 1.2 (maybe even 1.1), I've been having intermittent issues with the connection between my Ratgdo and my Apple Home stuff. The Ratgdo is shared through the HomeKit Integration. It wouldn't work the other day, then worked for a few hours on Thursday, but hasn't worked since. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2025.1.2 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue HomeKit Bridge ### Link to integration …

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