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These components all get set up with the Apple Home app on your iPhone. The "button" just shows up on CarPlay. When leaving, I get about 1/2 mile from my house the button disappears, then reappears on its own when I am headed back home about 1/2 mile from home.
Before I got started with this project I learned that the Meross Smart Remote is not compatible with the MyQ door opener model that I have. But I made it work anyway, which leads me to believe that you don't even need a "smart door opener", but I'm not certain of this as I've never tried it. In the following picture you'll see a harness with blue and brown wires. These are supposed to be connected to the door opener motor on compatible openers. Since mine is not on that list, and has no provisions to connect these wires, I soldered them to the circuit board of one of the remotes I have.
I'm not sure of the sequence of this magic, but I think it goes like this - I touch the button on my screen, CarPlay sends a signal through my phone over the cellular network to my Apple HomePod, it signals the Meross Smart Remote which then triggers the MyQ door opener remote, which then sends a signal to the door opener motor and commands the door to open. All of this happens in the blink of an eye.
The following picture shows the Meross Smart Remote and the MyQ door remote and the wiring mess all zip tied to the door motor mount. Not pretty, but it works.
If you have any questions, I'll try and answer them here.
I stumbled across this video today and, since I have a cable like he uses (just need to dig it out of a box), I’m going to give it a shot later this week to see if I can use wireless CarPlay. If so, that will be a pretty low-drag solution for using My Q on the bike’s touch screen…albeit without the convenience of getting prompted to open the door when nearing home.
I stumbled across this video today and, since I have a cable like he uses (just need to dig it out of a box), Im going to give it a shot later this week to see if I can use wireless CarPlay. If so, that will be a pretty low-drag solution for using My Q on the bikes touch screen albeit without the convenience of getting prompted to open the door when nearing home.
The wireless CarPlay hack that he uses in the video does work, (I have it working on my 24). The problem is with the MyQ app not being compatible with CarPlay. It will not show up as an option on the IFCU.
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