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  • Meross Smart Garage Door Opener review: Not your father's garage door opener

    JimBobHomieDeJimBobHomieDe
    Meross garage door control purchased thru Amazon in April 2022.
    Installation was easy enough.
    Note: We are up-to-date on Meross firmware updates. There have been at least 2 updates. April 2022 - 31-Dec-22

    Function through the Meross app was and is predictable and reliable.
    Function thru Siri - not predictable or reliable. Even though we now have iOS 16.2 installed which was a big improvement for HomeKit and Siri. details follow.


    Meross door sensor - the right way to describe the two states of the sensor is: Door-Closed  _OR_  Door-Not-Closed
    This is not the same as Door fully Open

    Odd uses with the wall switch
    We can still use the wall switch inside the garage for the door and this permits stopping the door motion part way open. We open the garage door part way so we can warm up the car on cold winter days. Open the door 6 inches to allow airflow, hit the button to stop and run the car in the garage to warm up.
    Fresh air comes in through the doorway. The garage has roof vents so the deadly carbon monoxide does not build up too much.

    WHY warmup in a mostly closed garage?
    In the Minneapolis metro there are drive-by thieves looking for unattended running cars and the city has made it illegal to leave an unattended vehicle running.
    What goes haywire? Siri and Meross app both act as if the door is fully open, So if you ask Siri to open the door it will respond that the door Is already open. Then you ask to close it - wait for closure - and ask to open it. However, if you use the wall button to open the door part way and you decide you opened it too far you use the button again and it closes some and then you hit the button to stop motion. Now the door is partway open but the next action if you push the button will be to move toward open.
    If Siri believes the door is open in this situation and you ask Siri to close it the door the door will move up not down.
    Sometimes - Meross/Siri decide the door is obstructed.
    NET: My wife never uses the wall button and I deal with warming the cars.



    Issues with Siri

    #1. response delay - Siri always takes longer to activate the door than when using the Meross app.
    iOS 16.2 reduced the activation delay significantly but sometimes it still takes a long time.
    Perhaps the Wi-Fi signal is weaker in the garage? Although it is OK for other devices like iPhone/iPad.

    #2. Siri sometimes announces the door is taking longer than expected to respond.
    If I use the Meross app at that moment - No Problems.

    #3 Devices go temporarily missing within Siri/HomeKit.
    Siri sometimes announces that some device does not exist. This happens for the garage and other devices.
    If I use the Meross app at that moment - No Problems.

    Anyway - we are happy and no longer have garage door openers in the cars.

    muthuk_vanalingam