I have a garage door controller. If i say “hey google, close the garage door” it closes fine. If i say “hey google, open the garage door” it says sorry, i cannot control a device that requires a pin. This is so annoying. Is there a workaround for this. I know a few years ago, google assistant stopped 3rd party integrations or something like that. There must be a workaround like removing the pin. Can anyone help?
I don’t have a garage-door-controller to test this, but did you set up a PIN via the Wyze app 3rd party integration?
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I think this was on purpose. For security reasons.
Even with Wyze automations, you can only close the door, not open it.
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Yes i set the pin a couple times just to be sure. You would think, if its not possible, Wyze would update their information. The webpage support says to set a pin, etc etc. Apparently that is old news unfortunately.
Hey, garage door tech here. Most home assistants won’t let you do that because of security issues. I install genies with Aladdin connect and liftmaster with myq and both of them don’t support opening. Myq dropped 3rd party support and it doesn’t even show up in the Google home dashboard anymore.
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That was annoying when that happened. I liked that integration, even if I couldn’t use it to open the door, because I could at least “talk to myQ” and ask it if the door was open and receive a useful response.
I don’t own Wyze Garage Door Controller, but I believe the PIN requirement to confirm an action in third-party integrations is standard for anything that has the potential to reduce security (like opening a garage door or unlocking a lock). That certainly seems to be the case when using Google Assistant (Home) or Amazon Alexa to unlock Palm Lock or Lock Bolt v2, so I agree with the assessment that this is based on design intent for security purposes.