Hi all!
I'm taking delivery of my new Model 3 in a couple of weeks, and I'm thinking about control of my garage doors and considering the homelink option. Looking at my roller doors, the control units are actually pretty old, and only one of them is remote controlled, so I'm going to replace the control units. While doing this, I have the option to add a homelink receiver and/or a home automation module to the controller which would allow one or both doors to be opened either by homelink RF signal, or by a wifi command from Google Home.
My thought is that doing both is kind of double dipping, and perhaps homelink is a bit old fashioned and could be superseded by the Google Home type route. I'm thinking that if I install one of these (or similar) then I could use a voice command or automation routine to open/close the garage door without having to keep a key fob in the car or on my person. To make this work smoothly, it would be best if I could trigger the voice command from the car easily, or perhaps use a button on the touchscreen to trigger the routine. I don't have a lot of experience with what the car can and can't do yet though.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing that could shed some light on the best way to approach it?
I'm taking delivery of my new Model 3 in a couple of weeks, and I'm thinking about control of my garage doors and considering the homelink option. Looking at my roller doors, the control units are actually pretty old, and only one of them is remote controlled, so I'm going to replace the control units. While doing this, I have the option to add a homelink receiver and/or a home automation module to the controller which would allow one or both doors to be opened either by homelink RF signal, or by a wifi command from Google Home.
My thought is that doing both is kind of double dipping, and perhaps homelink is a bit old fashioned and could be superseded by the Google Home type route. I'm thinking that if I install one of these (or similar) then I could use a voice command or automation routine to open/close the garage door without having to keep a key fob in the car or on my person. To make this work smoothly, it would be best if I could trigger the voice command from the car easily, or perhaps use a button on the touchscreen to trigger the routine. I don't have a lot of experience with what the car can and can't do yet though.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing that could shed some light on the best way to approach it?