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Unofficial IoT software and integrations are not (much?) better. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was partly due to a junk integration for this device cobbled together by an amateur and replicated by thousands more amateurs into their own ginormous pile of other junk YAMLs.

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Why did that software work mostly fine most of the time since 2017? Even Chamberlain admits their blocking is deliberate. Even Chamberlain's external statements suggest this is part of their corporate strategy.

Why is Chamberlain's API so brittle it can't stand prodding from what they claim is a tiny fraction of users, even if those are misbehaving? Do you agree that comparing that to DDoS is ludicrous, and suggests either dishonesty or a fundamental misunderstanding of what "DDoS" means?

> partly due to a junk integration for this device cobbled together by an amateur

Judge for yourself, here's the code:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/5523e9947d82ac14... (before it was removed)

https://github.com/arraylabs/pymyq/tree/master/pymyq

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