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by jacobrussell 1593 days ago
This is awesome! I love reading about projects like this. Always gets me thinking about how I can do little things like this for my life workflows.

> installing MyQ W-Fi connected garage doors

Haha you were already light-years ahead of me before you even started. I typically slide my key into a little pocket and pray it doesn't fall out. I think using events from your router is a great idea. I have recently been playing around with events you can send from routers and it has really opened up my mind to whole new avenues of creativity.
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jacobrussell 1593 days ago
If anyone has FortiNet FortiGate routers, they have something called "automation stitches"[0] which are a way to action on nearly any event, and they can be created in the routers config file. They can even run scripts and chain together. When the criteria is met they can send to a Slack channel, email, Lambda Function, or any webhook URL. Pretty fun to play with.

[0] https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Us...

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mellavora 1593 days ago
>I typically slide my key into a little pocket and pray it doesn't fall out.

my little pocket has a zipper to prevent things from falling out.

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