I'm not saying owners should be completely barred from modifying their systems but there are security implications to bypassing their centralized / cloud-based authentication.
It'd be possible for a knows-enough-to-be-dangerous customer to modify their system in such a way that they unwittingly allow unauthenticated local access. From my point of view, Chamberlain/MyQ should be totally indemnified in such scenarios but I'm not sure how murky the legalities would be in terms of getting judges/juries to accept "caveat emptor".
EDIT: Maybe there's a way to ensure customers have signed an indemnification agreement before unlocking local API access? I guess there'd also need to be a way to ensure/promote a factory reset if/when ownership/rentalship changes.
It'd be possible for a knows-enough-to-be-dangerous customer to modify their system in such a way that they unwittingly allow unauthenticated local access. From my point of view, Chamberlain/MyQ should be totally indemnified in such scenarios but I'm not sure how murky the legalities would be in terms of getting judges/juries to accept "caveat emptor".
EDIT: Maybe there's a way to ensure customers have signed an indemnification agreement before unlocking local API access? I guess there'd also need to be a way to ensure/promote a factory reset if/when ownership/rentalship changes.