Thieves and garage door openers

[PowPow]

They may be working on it.
https://www.myq.com/auto

One can hope.

I mean, Mitsubishi? Do they still even make cars?

obviously something is blocking them from partnering with Apple & Google. Hit those 2 and you've got pretty much everyone covered.

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[IDyeti]

Do you have any details on how you did that ?

Post #23 in this thread.

 

[kje22kje]

What I was really hoping for was that MyQ had an app that I could download on the Sync system. That way I wouldn't need a garage door opener and could just open/close it from the screen in the Bronco.

Was disappointed to find that it does not.

Just the phone app but we've always got our phones on us so it's quite handy.

 

[604Bronco]

I have a smart garage door opener (MyQ). Each time the door opens, closes, or stops it will send a notification to my phone. If you had one of those, it would likely wake you up in the middle of the night.

 

[Fonz54]

With an open vehicle parked outside at night, are there any good tactics to disable the use of the garage door opener? I have Lux in the visor, however, I don't think there's anything unique to my situation.
I've heard of putting the garage door motor on a smart plug and shutting off power to the plug on a schedule, however, are there any other methods you're using?

I park outside so I never program the onboard door opener. One sure fired way is if you have a dead bolt on the overhead door lock it at night. It is typically just a bar that slide into the track above the wheels. Or you can stick a heavy duty screw driver through the rail and above one of the wheels.

 

[ERock62]

Interesting. Did some reading about MyQ + Carplay.

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...ing-on-my-maverick-using-myq-app-iphone.9505/

We don't have our Bronco yet. But I will fool around with my F250 w/ Sync (3.4) and see if I somehow can get it to work.

 

[captvideo]

After reading this thread I decided to add the FordPass skill to my Alexa account. Then added the phrase to lock my car to a routine that I already created that turns off my lights at night. This way every night I know my car will be locked so nobody can use the HomeLink remote to open my garage even when the windows are done in the summer.

 

[emulous74]

When I had my house built in 2017, there weren't really much options. As my garage has a window with a window AC and an external door to the outside. I pretty much have to rely upon the alarm, so there are glass breakage sensors, motion sensors (don't really use these unless I'm away for a long time) and sensors on the window, door and both garage doors.

The garage door sensors are set on a time delay, to allow me to pull in and turn off the alarm either manually, remote control, phone or Alexa. I can turn on and off the time delay, so in Vacation mode it turns off the time delay. Even when it goes into time delay, the inside alarm panels sounds off, so I know every time as soon as the garage door is opened.

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