Holiday 2017 Experiment

I broke our 20+ year old garage door opener...pieces flew everwhere in a glorious demise. The new "garage bot" is wifi enabled, so of course I must tinker. It's nothing mind-blowing, but it has been a good excuse to spend some time using a variety of things I've been wanting to explore:

• Flurl HTTP Client
• SkiaSharp SVG
• Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI
• Xamarin.Forms CSS Stylesheets
• Azure Cognitive Services and Bing Speech Recognition

OpenSesame Garage Door Opener

Talking to the MyQ API. Supported actions:

• Login
• GetDevices
• GetDeviceState
• SetDeviceState (open and close)

If you want to use the MyQ API and (obviously) have a compatible garage door openeers, setup a Chamberlain or LiftMaster account through their website or app.

MyQ Resources

https://unofficialliftmastermyq.docs.apiary.io/#

https://www.npmjs.com/package/myq-api

Azure Cognitive Services and Bing Speech Recognition

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/cloud-services/cognitive-services/speech-recognition/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/

API Key required. Be sure to get a key from the link above and add it on the Settings view of the app.

Other

Xamarin.Forms Nightly Builds - https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/wiki/Nightly-Builds