[jesseryoung]

I briefly took a look at the page and checked out the comments and thought you were being a total buzzkill on a cool toy project until I went back and actually looked at the schematic.

This is project taking complete control over the motor that opens and closes the door and NOT using the simple "throw a relay on the door opener" trick that you usually see (ex: https://cdn.instructables.com/F9V/T9JH/I9YBZHM7/F9VT9JHI9YBZ...).

This project is unnecessarily dangerous for such a simple application.

[buescher]

I'll happily be a buzzkill and say don't do that either (outside of your basement garage door opener laboratory) but it's not nearly as egregious.

[rtkwe]

The 'throw a relay on the door opener' is doing exactly the same thing hitting the interior button to open the door. It sends the same signal to the motors and doesn't bypass any of the load limiting or safety sensors. Those are basically safe.

[buescher]

Those projects can be made safe, but they generally don't mitigate the hazards that compliance with this section will: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/1211.14 They are not the same thing as a human pressing the button.

[rtkwe]

Those are a bit overkill, I've not had any garage door that beeped for opening for remotes for example and that's a similar distance of triggered by someone not in the immediate area. They should be safe based just on the break sensors and current limiting.

[_ea1k]

You are absolutely correct. I have no idea when this site became this way, but a lot of the responses here are disappointing. I can easily close my garage door from well outside of sight range with the regular remote. I can set the wifi one to have even less range by requiring me to be on the same wifi network. There is very little downside to this for my use case.

The standards that require MyQ to make earsplitting noises for seconds before moving just cause headaches.

[buescher]

Those are the industry requirements written by people with understanding of the hazards of running a garage door opener out of line-of-sight of the door. Read them carefully. There are reasons for each of them. Think hard about it.

Remotes also operate differently than your wall button. Did you know that?

[hjklmn]

Those are industry requirements for garage door openers being sold/used.

The project above is an open source prototype and by no means a product that consumers are expected to buy/use as is.

[KirinDave]

I prefer to use BLE microcontrollers rather than real networking because it basically makes a better and more secure remote control rather than opening folks up to this danger.

I think very few people plan to open their garage door from across the continent with these projects