Discontinuation of MyQ Connect Community SmartApp

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

We’ve started to talk about the implications of the likely significant “restrictions” on the future official MyQ DTH in the SmartTiles thread. @625alex and I have no love lost for MyQ, but we fear that there is a good chance MyQ integration will have to be severely crippled by SmartThings in order to be certified. It will be very hard for SmartThings to limit the stuff that a Community SmartApp does with a “garage door”, and thus, only limited and highly vetted SmartApps will be permitted to use the DTH.

SmartTiles Dashboard v5.7: Release March 2, 2016

Correct, I fear… I presume, for example, that Chamberlain wants SmartThings to solidly prevent linking Amazon Alexa to the open/close Commands, for both security and safety. As we know, currently Alexa doesn’t have native garage door or lock controls, but we can easily sync a Virtual Switch ("Alexa, turn garage on." = close the garage door). I believe that Chamberlain will not allow any such workaround or hack to be permitted, and thus, a MyQ instance will have to be restricted to use only with officially vetted & published SmartApps. This is a significant fundamental change to the SmartThings Device:Capability paradigm which should make any manufacturer / model of device that conforms to a standard Capability swappable with any other, in all SmartApps that do not use any custom Command…