Garage Door Controller Widget

Exactly, and what I said to them.

It’s a really stupid design compared to other makes.

I’m able to use Google assistant to open and close my garage door. You have to give it a PIN # first. Go to your camera’s setting > Accessories > Garage Door Controller > Third Party
Intergrations > Google Assistant - Set PIN

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This was done in the Android App.

I hope this helps,
Jay

I tried this but it doesn’t work. Set a PIN but it fails to recognize. I then looked at my Google Home app and added the Garage Door cam to the Home but it still shows offline.

Can you elaborate on what, if anything else, you’ve done to use Google (with your voice) to control your Wyze garage door cam/controller?

Thanks
Richard

Would love to have a widget just for the garage door open/close.

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Yes, we do!

Hi Everyone, I’ve been frustrated by this for a long time, and tried a zillion things to get it to work as a shortcut on ios, so I can have an open/close button on my lock screen and control with Siri. After going doing a complicated rabbit role, I finally did it!! And it is super simple: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wyze/comments/17a5f9x/garage_door_controller_ios_shortcut/

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Garage Controller Widget

A widget for android for garage control only.

I dont need to wait for and load the camera every time i want to cycle my garage door. Would love a simple button to do this.

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Add me to the wish list. Seems kinda obvious for the GDO to have its own tile in the Wyze app.

Despite me having Wyze cameras in and outside the garage, I Will not be buying a Wyze garage door opener until original OP wish gets implemented by Wyze.

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I wouldn’t recommend it either. I went from Nexx to this and have regretted it every since. A simple widget could completely fix that!

Even IFTTT!

+1 for having a widget for the garage door open/close command. Currently have to load app and then wait for it to connect when really I just want it to open/close :confused:

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I agree. It would also be a huge benefit if you could use it on your watch, like the Meross app.

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FYI on this wishlist request…The new App being released today (1/25/24) supports an interactive widget for rule shortcuts, and there is a rule action for “Close the Garage”

So you can now create a shortcut to close the garage and put it on your phone home screen.

However, there is no rule for “Open the garage” yet, so we can’t yet open the garage.

Personally, it would be great to have one button that would just toggle to the opposite state. So if the garage is closed, then it would open it, and if it was already open then the same button would instead close the garage door. But I will settle for just adding a rule to open the garage so we can have 1 button for open and 1 for close.

At least half of it is available now though. You can finally add a widget to close the garage.

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We’re halfway there! This is great news. Looking forward to the finish line!

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Yay. Looking forward to full functionality with this!

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That is a nice feature add in 2.49!
CarverOfChoice, I like the idea of a “option” to use it as a toggle. The V3 camera that the controller is attached to shows whether it is open or closed. If you accidentally hit the widget and toggled it open you could send a notification saying it is open?
I’ll wait till several folks test this out before I dive in!
Hopefully 2.49 does not break the return scroll position again on the event viewer :slight_smile:

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Nice; I went ahead and already got it installed.

It was a bit premature to be happy about this new Close Garage Widget because I haven’t really used it. When you open the garage door, since there is no widget for this, you have to open and wait for the camera to come up to open the garage. Since I already have the camera open, I just close the garage door the same way.

Unfortunately, this request is still tagged “Maybe Later” not “In Progress” so, we’ll probably be waiting for a while for the Open Garage Widget.

This needs a louder voice to implementation! Your garage door opener is really archaic compared to other models, NEXX, myQ, Tailwind, etc., do a search on Amazon, all run circles around your product! Your price, which is more expensive than some of these products, doesn’t justify the lack of functionality, since most all of them provide this functionality to easily open or close the garage door. Come on Wyze!

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This would be huge if we can get a widget to open and close the garage door. I ride a motorcycle and it makes it useless. I want to open the garage door while Im a few blocks away so I can just pull in. Instead I have to stop at my driveway, open the app, tap the garage cam, thentap tp open it and then wait. It was fater when I didnt have this and just pulled my garage door remote out of my pocket and licked 1 button.

I created a Shortcut on ISO to make this happen with Google Assistant so I can just say hey goolge, open the garage door, but that broke after the last upgrade and hasnt worked since.

Making this happen isnt that hard.

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