I know the question of CarPlay integration has been asked, only to always be answered with “Not at this time and no news of when”
My Question is “WHY?” has anyone asked ADC an received a straight answer? Obviously arming, opening garage doors, Disarming, Checking Status from your car dash is something a lot of people would want.
As far as I can tell, this isn’t something that’s being planned at all. I have put in a request for this feature however.
As for why it doesn’t exist, I could not say. Alarm.com support doesn’t typically have this type of information.
I have reached out to see if I can get any additional information on the topic and will follow up once I find something out, one way or the other.
Have you reached out to Apple before regarding this feature?
I’ve never reached out to Apple as I don’t think they are the barrier. I think it’s Alarm.com that does not want to do this, but am not sure. I am guessing its because they don’t want to do anything that may expose their customers to another form of automation that they may jump on (Apple Home). Just my theory
I’ve tried the shortcut Siri workaround but its clunky as I have 3 garage doors and that means 6 commands (open and shut for each door)
Not sure this is something you’d like to get into, however homebridge (https://homebridge.io) is a solution that will interface your alarm.com ecosystem into Apple’s HomeKit via a Plug-in.
This then allows things like your garage doors (and all of your alarm.com ecosystem, actually) to be in Apple Home on your phone, and thereby in CarPlay. While I haven’t tested the CarPlay interactions with Garage doors myself, it appears that it should work. Certainly I see and can control all my alarm.com items from HomeKit without issue.
Edit to add:
I just tested with my garage doors. In my case I have the Linear door controllers. Apple HomeKit would not trigger the doors to open or close because they aren’t a certified accessory (I’m thinking for safety’s sake). But the status of the doors (open or closed) did update immediately in HomeKit. So no good for your use case, unless you have a different door controller than Linear and may have a different outcome.
I have been able to verify that this integration is not on the roadmap at this time. As per why this integration is not available, I could not definitively say but if I am able to track that down, I will follow up here.