It seems like Chamberlain has been playing this "Cat and Mouse" with us garage door owners for years. The home assistant integration has been spotty for ages. Chamberlain will add some new measure to block it, and the integration folks update the library to work around it.
Personally, I moved to an ESPHome based controller and deleted their app years ago. That said... I'm definitely ordering a ratgdo, that seems like a way better option than what I've got now!
This is definitely done already. GitLab (where I work as an engineer) has done it for a number of years. They used to publish the numbers and ranges for every role/location but they made it internal only a year or so back for reasons that I can't remember. You can still see the old calculator thanks to the internet archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161551/https://about.git...
I don't want to debate whether this is the best approach in terms of treating employees fairly, but it certainly seems to have it's advantages for the company - they get to save money by hiring people in places with a lower compensation rate.
I would guess there's a patent involved preventing another company from using it. I would definitely have bought an MS 3000/Sculpt with mechanical switches before I built my own ergodox. My problem was that I wore out my sculpt in like 14 months. Half of the space bar stopped working. I'm actually a little surprised Microsoft hasn't released one with mechanical switches.
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