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I highly recommend anyone having problems with this consider trying this free as in speech (and as in beer if you've got solderimg skills and an ESP laying around) solution: RatGDO [0]

40 bucks, HA, and about half an hour each (mostly fiddling with the ESP/shield pcb wiring inside the light cover of the opener from the awkward overhead-on-a-ladder position) for me to no-cloud smartify two chamberlain MyQ openers. Special sauce is that the device can MITM the "Security2.0+" signal and emulate the discrete functions of the wired wall remote, not just act as a dry contact relay on the motor.

Result is that separate entities are created not just for the door open(ing)-clos(ing) states, but also for the obstruction sensor and a separate switch to turn the opener's light on or off remotely, all exposed (as MQTT topics) in HA.

[0] https://github.com/PaulWieland/ratgdo

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