API WITHOUT Internet/Cloud?

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I am looking to control a door over a local LAN, that does NOT have Internet access. I’ve looked into the command line and web API, and the both seem to require access to garadget’s cloud servers. I don’t understand why the web interface would not be built into the device, and allow access via the local LAN IP via http://192.168.x.x/ (as assigned by DHCP) instead of via some Internet server.

I have NOT yet purchased a Garadget, and will not do so unless I can confirm 100% that it can be setup and operated without the Garadget device having access to the Internet.

Is there a 100% local API/interface? If so can someone point me at documentation for it?

edit: Ok, I see the MQTT stuff, but that seems to be quite complex, requiring I setup a “broker” server - I want to be able to send controls directly to the garadget, and access it directly to get status, without having to setup a whole new server application on some other machine. Possible?

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At this time there are no plans to service any incoming network requests by the door controllers.

MQTT is your best choice for LAN only configuration. I would recommend looking at Home Assistant as a broker and home automation server. $30 Raspberry Pi and a day of tinkering is all it takes, and you’ll end up with much more versatile, robust and secure setup.

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Inconvenient short-sighted design.

I don’t want to have three devices, just two - the door controller, and my linux PC that can send commands to whatever garage controller I use and check status from a shell script using something like curl or wget. Don’t want to have some additional “server” software running. The server/controller need to be on the same device.

Guess I won’t be buying a garadget after all.

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You can run MQTT broker on the same Linux box you use as a client leaving you with only two devices.

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Using the handle “GARADGETSUCKS” when you don’t even OWN one is a pretty shitty, low-life thing to do. Maybe a push-button is more your speed. Or just a rope.

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So, having not used Garadget, and clearly knowing its limitations prior to investing in one you are complaining and attacking it because it doesn’t meet your pre-purchase expectations? LOL, do you know how ludicrous this sounds :man_facepalming:

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I’ll go one step further, since I have to see this thread every time I come here.

Asking for a command line API, being furnished one via MQTT, which can be accessed using Python MQTT libraries that will work from the command line, makes you out to be a jerk that doesn’t know what they are talking about.

And that’s just Python. You want to use C++? Ruby? Ruby on Rails? Node.js? All of them have a command line interface for running a very small program that can send and receive MQTT topics, and JSON.

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If that is complex, you need to just go buy a device at Lowes or Home Depot and leave this for the grown-ups.