Garage Door Opening During a Major Hurricane

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I’ve read on this forum about issues with unexpected garage door openings during the automatic closing process, seemingly due to a need for re-calibration. Since following this advice, I’ve kept my camera calibrated and haven’t experienced further unexpected openings—until now.

Ahead of Hurricane Milton, I moved my lawn mower and golf cart into the garage. I suspect the roof of my golf cart may have partially blocked the QR code, which could have affected calibration. To my shock, however, the garage door of my “hunkered down” home opened at exactly 8:30 pm, right as the hurricane’s winds were rising, around 45MPH. Had this happened just a few hours later, it could have been catastrophic.

Wyze, why would your system ever breach a secured perimeter, calibrated or not? This design flaw poses a risk to security and safety.

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I don’t have the garage door opener but from what I understand the QR code is only used during the closing process. I don’t see why blocking it would cause it to open a door that was successfully closed. Perhaps a power flicker but even then I don’t see why that would open the door. Maybe someone accidentally tapped an automation or something else in the app? Or perhaps if the power goes out and comes back on and it can’t see the QR code it gets confused.

Honestly the setup seems kludgy to me, personally I’d rather just opt for an actual smart door opener if I had that sort of need (but in reality, I don’t want my garage door “on the grid” at all). The wyze “hack” seems far too sensitive and buggy.

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