Smart Garage Door opener in Homekit - not appearing in Carplay

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Smart Garage Door opener in Homekit - not appearing in Carplay

Hi all, I recently installed a Meross Smart Garage Opener and connected to my HomeKit. It shows up and works perfectly fine on the 'Home' app on my phone and Mac, and if I use Siri on my phone it will open/close without issues.

I have seen/read that it would also display a button on the CarPlay home screen when I am driving and within range of my Home - however it doesn't appear to be doing this.

I am running an iPhone XS on 15.3, my HomePod mini hub is on the latest 15.3 OS as well.

I have configured the garage door in Home to have all notifications on, I have turned Siri Suggestions on in CarPlay and also on my phone for the Home app.

Location Services is turned On for my iPhone as well and shared/On for Home app. I'm not sure what else there is?

iPhone XS

Posted on Mar 2, 2022 6:35 PM

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alp100

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Mar 23, 2022 10:49 PM in response to BanhMiBandit

I don't know if this was an issue on my end or Apple's but I was running IOS 14 - which is also supposed to support the garage in CarPlay - and when I updated my iPhone and turned the Siri recommendations On/Off from the car one more time, the garage door button appeared on my CarPlay. Hope this works for you too!

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Mar 27, 2022 4:40 AM in response to BanhMiBandit

Try privacy-location services-system services-enable HomeKit

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Mar 3, 2022 12:53 AM in response to Michael Paine

hmm... I have definitely seen on the internet lots of people have a Home panel/button appear on their CarPlay dash board when they approach/are near home. Same garage opener as well... I will keep searching :)

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alp100

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Mar 22, 2022 9:32 PM in response to BanhMiBandit

I have the same exact problem which I can't seem to figure out! I have every location service and Siri setting/toggle enabled for Homekit. I can use Siri to open my garage, however I can't seem to get the garage door button on my CarPlay dashboard. I believe it has to do with Siri suggestions, however even though I use the homekit garage opener every time, it still doesn't show up on CarPlay suggestions. Did you manage to find a solution for this?

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BanhMiBandit Author

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Mar 23, 2022 4:12 AM in response to alp100

alp100 - no I haven’t figured it out. Like you I’ve had location and notification settings changed back and forth, Siri suggestions turned on etc.

it isn’t a big deal for me as I have a remote in the car but having a CarPlay button would be handy so I don’t have to fish around/look down into the storage area to find the remote (and using Siri voice needs the phone unlocked which isn’t always easy to do whilst driving as well).

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