Is there a smart garage door opener worse than liftmaster?

Not really a realistic option.

True.

No you.

That doesn't work with the newest liftmasters at least last I checked.

Genie is apparently still fine.

After installation from previous owner, one fine morning in new home we awoke to our garage door opening at 4am.(semi rural, garage under bedroom) to headlights in my drive way. What the actually fuck. Bat in hand underwear on running down to see what the fuck was going on. AMAZON DELIVERY HAS PRE ARRANGED AUTHORIZATION TO OPEN YOUR LIFTMASTER DOOR AND WAS ALSO PRE AUTHORIZED FOR EARLY DELIVERIES. LET ME FUCKING REPEAT THAT AMAZON DELIVERY DRIVER IN A FUCKING UNMARKED VEHICLE OPENED OUR LIFTMASTER GARAGE DOOR BECAUSE WE DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT WAS A THING AND HAD TO OPT OUT OF IT BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING THING.

I have a chamberlain (also crap, but for different reasons) that allows Amazon drivers to deliver packages inside the garage.

I was thinking about hooking mine up to Home Assistant. But apparently their simple indoor buttons aren't really buttons and you have to build some freaky induction circuit to get around their pointless vendor lock-in just to operate it.

If I ever have a choice, I'll never be any of those Chamberlain/Liftmaster pieces of shit.

The sad thing is that there are smart device protocols out there that let you just hook shit up locally, use whatever app you want - and im not even talking about HomeAssistsnt DIY style. SmartThings was a hub that just let local control be a thing.

Now it’s hard if. Or impossible to find stuff that doesn’t let someone else control your stuff, monitor your stuff all the time, and make you stuff obsolete and shut it down just to make you get a new one.

The problem isn’t “smart” stuff, the problem is capitalism.

Good idea.

It’s very clear during setup that the amazon thing is opt in.

They noted that the garage door was set up by the previous owner. That likely also means that the previous owner could still open it from the app.

I did, that's why I mentioned it.

I got new Liftmaster garage doors installed this past January. I haven't installed the app and I have no plans to. I didn't even consider different brands or features at the time; I just wanted door that open and close when you push the buttons. So far, they have been fine, and the integrated battery backup came in handy once as well.