Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
On Jan 5, 2025, at 12:56?PM, Jackie Klinnert via groups.io <jackie.klinnert@...> wrote:
I’ve had the MyQ set up for myself, ?my significant other, and my son, for probably 6 years. I don’t recall “hide my email”
It’s an optional security feature that Apple has added to iCloud email servers to reduce the risk of spam and scams. I’ve not used it and don’t really understand how it works, ?but I know that when I checked it as an option trying to set up the “additional user” for our opener, after I typed her “real” email address into myQ, when I tried to add her to MY myQ account, it listed HER address as a string of gibberish characters. I have no idea whether that itself is a weakness in its implementation.
I’m hoping someone else will comment so we can both learn a bit.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
I’ve had the MyQ set up for myself, my significant other, and my son, for probably 6 years. I don’t recall “hide my email”, so I can’t help you there. I don’t know why you would need to hide your email.
I assume the information is stored in the MyQ cloud, which is somewhat risky, but that same risk is going to be there, if there is a data breach anywhere.
I don’t have Amazon Prime, so I am not able to use the package delivery benefit.
Jackie
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On Jan 5, 2025, at 10:14?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
My guess is that the “set” of people who might be able to address this issue is limited to those who already use the “myQ” iOS or Android app, but if there are any of you out there who’ve done this, I’d be grateful for pointers.
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Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
On Jan 5, 2025, at 10:53?AM, Gijzette via groups.io <gsstrickland@...> wrote:
We just used one of our regular email addresses and setup a password we hadn't used anywhere else and stored it in a shared?1Password vault
Sorry to be so dense, but I’m inferring that perhaps I could wipe the credentials I’ve already set up for myself, create a new iCloud Email address such as < openmydoor@...>, and add that account to our other devices. Downside would include not being able to differentiate who was opening and closing the door, although that’s not really important for our implementation. Still, it looks as though the basic design of the app is SUPPOSED to support different but shared addresses, so I’ll do a bit of investigating regarding what IT support is offered.
Sometimes the “home automation” features of “legacy” appliances such as washing machines, ovens/stoves, etc., ?seem to have little real intelligence included. We’ll see.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
We just used one of our regular email addresses and setup a password we hadn't used anywhere else and stored it in a shared?1Password vault (I pay for a family subscription so we each have a vault and then one we share). This was all done before hide my email was available so not sure how that would work.?
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 12:49?PM jimrobertson via <jimrobertson= [email protected]> wrote:
We use the MyQ app. Have for a few years. I've never been able to add a 2nd email so my husband and I use the same email address/password combo on both iPhones.?
Actually, I was very pessimistic about the possibility anyone would have the faintest idea what to do about this. Did you create a new email address for the two of you, or did you use an existing address that you could share sole-purposed for the opener, or even just sharing a common address that you’ve used together for some time? How about the complication of “hide my email?” That made me wonder a bit about how that interface actually works. Does the private address change each time it’s used, or can the garbled address gathered by the iOS app remain stable from event to event. If it does, does THAT lessen the security of the basic feature, since it seems the “substitute” address is presented to the end user by the interface itself?
Again, thanks SO much for your help!
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
On Jan 5, 2025, at 10:42?AM, Gijzette via groups.io <gsstrickland@...> wrote:
We use the MyQ app. Have for a few years. I've never been able to add a 2nd email so my husband and I use the same email address/password combo on both iPhones.?
Actually, I was very pessimistic about the possibility anyone would have the faintest idea what to do about this. Did you create a new email address for the two of you, or did you use an existing address that you could share sole-purposed for the opener, or even just sharing a common address that you’ve used together for some time? How about the complication of “hide my email?” That made me wonder a bit about how that interface actually works. Does the private address change each time it’s used, or can the garbled address gathered by the iOS app remain stable from event to event. If it does, does THAT lessen the security of the basic feature, since it seems the “substitute” address is presented to the end user by the interface itself?
Again, thanks SO much for your help!
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Struggling with going online with home electronics
We use the MyQ app. Have for a few years. I've never been able to add a 2nd email so my husband and I use the same email address/password combo on both iPhones.?
--Gijzette
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 11:14?AM jimrobertson via <jimrobertson= [email protected]> wrote: I’ve had a checkered life with electric garage doors and their openers. For example:
- However, just yesterday I tried to complete the iOS connection for the door (from LiftMaster) by adding my wife’s iPhone to the hinces permitted to control the door. The app requires designation of a primary user but is supposed to allow seamless addition of other family
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Struggling with going online with home electronics
I’ve had a checkered life with electric garage doors and their openers. For example:
- A decade or so, I drove into my garage with my VERY expensive racing road bicycle lashed to the top of my car via a Thule rack with beefy box-frame steel support rail. Although I was driving VERY slowly, the force actually BENT the that steel rail. It appeared initially that the bike was undamaged, but the next day when I went for my next ride, I drove to my starting point, removed the bike from the now slightly curvaceous bike rack, mounted the front wheel to the fork, hopped on, took my first pedal stroke… and slumped to the pavement because the bike actually HAD suffered a fatal injury: the carbon fiber steerer tube had cracked at the bottom of the headset! All’s well that ends well, however, because my insurance company said “no problem: your bike had an accident with your house, and we cover that!"
- A bit LESS than a decade ago, in Sonoma County, CA’s devastating Tubbs Wildfire that destroyed about 5,000 homes, my entire HOA community disappeared. One of the fire’s few fatalities, fortunately, was a retired widow who (it’s assumed) didn’t know how to get out of her garage once the power went out as the fire approached. Her charred skeleton was found in the charred remains of the driver’s seat of her charred car.
- About a month ago, I pressed “close” on the wall-mounted hard-wired control panel for my opener, and instead of the door moving, I heard a snapping sound as a metal gear sheared off from the motor and the chain slumped off its tracks. Fortunately, I found a garage door retail and repair shop that could do a same-day replacement. Without really knowing EXACTLY what I was buying, I commissioned a new replacement, and once it was installed I discovered that it was enhanced by Wi-Fi and an iOS/Android app that could monitor and control the door from anywhere on the planet ?where an internet connection was available AND report the door's current open/closed status. The iOS app includes some very nice touches, such as enabling delivery service drivers to open and close the door under very specific circumstances to make delivery of your latest 32 GB/12 TB storage MacBook Pro more secure, and optional security video camera monitoring of the door's current status and even imaging whomever or whatever vehicle is .
However, just yesterday I tried to complete the iOS connection for the door (from LiftMaster) by adding my wife’s iPhone to the hinces permitted to control the door. The app requires designation of a primary user but is supposed to allow seamless addition of other family members.
One data field required for setup is a user’s email address. And, THAT includes designating whether the email address uses “hide my email” or “private relay” (which I think are the same thing, although I’m not sure). For my spouse’s connection, I checked “yes” to that question in the iOS app’s settings, but then what displayed on her phone’s iOS app was a gibberish address that the app itself could not use.
My guess is that the “set” of people who might be able to address this issue is limited to those who already use the “myQ” iOS or Android app, but if there are any of you out there who’ve done this, I’d be grateful for pointers.
We’ve solved the functional limitation by putting the one radiofrequency transmitter included with the opener in my wife’s car, but I’m still hoping we can get her and her iPhone added to the iOS setup.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
Just FYI, Becky was the one who made the suggestion.?
I only noticed a problem on Fontspace’s website and bought it to their attention.
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On Jan 5, 2025, at 9:10?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Thanks again for the suggestion, AND for the follow-up. On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:23?PM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Just FYI, I contacted Fontspace’s support and they said they were going to correct that problem.
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
Thanks again for the suggestion, AND for the follow-up. On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:23?PM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Just FYI, I contacted Fontspace’s support and they said they were going to correct that problem.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
On Jan 4, 2025, at 7:34?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
On Jan 3, 2025, at 7:13?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ? They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu. ?
??zz?p ?,I ?u?op-?p?spu pu? sp???????
?oi???|??? ?uo? ?? ?oo| uo? ?i ?i?? d??? ??? uoY
Very cool! ?Just be careful with it, because the above line has one incorrect character. ?Namely, the mirrored “read” has a forward letter “d”. ?I discovered this by flipping it horizontally in Pages.
Just FYI, I contacted Fontspace’s support and they said they were going to correct that problem. -- Bev in TX
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
On Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 10:00:31 AM EST, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Jan 3, 2025, at 11:39?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
There’s just no pleasing some people!My mom always taught me that anything worth doing was worth doing correctly.
She never learned to use a computer, but when she died at age “almost 92" (a retired English literature and French language high school teacher and VERY tolerant “prescriptive” grammarian), the investment advisor she used told me and my sibs that her handwritten tables of her frugally managed retirement savings were better than his Multiplan spreadsheets.
When we would visit her at her UP Michigan wooded lakeside retirement cottage, she would always tell us she was just “so tired,” but then make us delicious pies from hand-gathered pine forest wild blueberries, and when we’d drive her in to Marquette for shopping, we’d always discover at LEAST an additional 5,000 miles on her (always washed) car.
One other story: for the final two years of her life, she agreed to move from that cottage (where her nearest neighbor along the lakeshore was at least 1/4 mile away and her own driveway was 1/3 mile long from the highway) into a senior apartment in Marquette for the harshest two months of the winter. One morning, after a particularly heavy snowfall, she went out to the parking lot at the apartment complex to brush the snow off her car but stumbled and fell between it and its neighbor. The fall stunned her, and she became a bit hypothermic before she became alert. Fortunately, a passerby saw her lying between her parked car and that next one, and she spent two days recovering in the hospital. At hospital discharge, her Internist insisted she give him her car keys and recruit someone else to drive her to mandatory appointments. Within just a few days she had her newly designated driver bring her back to his office, proclaiming that there were just SOME things a lady needed to do to retain her dignity and remain independent, one of those being having her hair “done.” He relented and returned her keys; she’d not told him that her trip to her hairdresser was 25 miles in each direction.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
On Jan 3, 2025, at 11:39?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
There’s just no pleasing some people!
My mom always taught me that anything worth doing was worth doing correctly.
She never learned to use a computer, but when she died at age “almost 92" (a retired English literature and French language high school teacher and VERY tolerant “prescriptive” grammarian), the investment advisor she used told me and my sibs that her handwritten tables of her frugally managed retirement savings were better than his Multiplan spreadsheets.
When we would visit her at her UP Michigan wooded lakeside retirement cottage, she would always tell us she was just “so tired,” but then make us delicious pies from hand-gathered pine forest wild blueberries, and when we’d drive her in to Marquette for shopping, we’d always discover at LEAST an additional 5,000 miles on her (always washed) car.
One other story: for the final two years of her life, she agreed to move from that cottage (where her nearest neighbor along the lakeshore was at least 1/4 mile away and her own driveway was 1/3 mile long from the highway) into a senior apartment in Marquette for the harshest two months of the winter. One morning, after a particularly heavy snowfall, she went out to the parking lot at the apartment complex to brush the snow off her car but stumbled and fell between it and its neighbor. The fall stunned her, and she became a bit hypothermic before she became alert. Fortunately, a passerby saw her lying between her parked car and that next one, and she spent two days recovering in the hospital. At hospital discharge, her Internist insisted she give him her car keys and recruit someone else to drive her to mandatory appointments. Within just a few days she had her newly designated driver bring her back to his office, proclaiming that there were just SOME things a lady needed to do to retain her dignity and remain independent, one of those being having her hair “done.” He relented and returned her keys; she’d not told him that her trip to her hairdresser was 25 miles in each direction.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
? On Jan 3, 2025, at 7:13?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ? They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu. ?
??zz?p ?,I ?u?op-?p?spu pu? sp???????
?oi???|??? ?uo? ?? ?oo| uo? ?i ?i?? d??? ??? uoY
Very cool! ?Just be careful with it, because the above line has one incorrect character. ?Namely, the mirrored “read” has a forward letter “d”. ?I discovered this by flipping it horizontally in Pages. -- Bev in TX
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
There’s just no pleasing some people!
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On 4 Jan 2025, at 4:14?pm, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Jan 3, 2025, at 6:13?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ?They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu.
Thanks so much, Becky!
That’s really cool, except that the “Backwards and upside down” font messes up the vertical positioning of words that begin with capital letters…
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Jim Robertson
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HI
The only way to delete from phone without impacting the iCloud Library is stop synching the iPhone photos ?from using the iCloud.?
Goto Settings, your Apple ID, iCloud, Saved to iCloud section, tap Photos and turn off the Sync this Phone.?
When needed you can manually import pictures from the phone into Photos by using the cable connection to your Mac.
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On Jan 3, 2025, at 6:50?AM, floridabouvs via groups.io <floridabouvs@...> wrote:
Hi:I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything. Thanks. Carol
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
On Jan 3, 2025, at 6:13?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ?They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu.
Thanks so much, Becky!
That’s really cool, except that the “Backwards and upside down” font messes up the vertical positioning of words that begin with capital letters…
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
Jim - ?I know it’s past Christmas but here are a couple things re backward/mirrored ?text/font on Mac. ?This is what I found online a few minutes ago but I also found a place ON one of my Mac's apps - but now I’ve lost track of that, too. ?There’s some program (“Mail?”) which will do it but … ????). ?
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ? They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu. ?
??zz?p ?,I ?u?op-?p?spu pu? sp???????
?oi???|??? ?uo? ?? ?oo| uo? ?i ?i?? d??? ??? uoY
I don’t know what else you can do with it?
?.?uos p??z?? ?u???? s?? ?o? ???s ??W??
Becky?
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On Dec 26, 2024, at 10:01?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 26, 2024, at 7:52?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Can it be in an email attachment? ?If so, you can easily create it in a word processor. ?If your friend doesn’t have the same word processor, then export it to a portable format.
Thanks so much. That should do it. Everyone in my stepson’s family has a Mac save for for his gaming wizard son, whose mantra is that if you cannot strip it down to bare metal and build a brand new but different gaming box from the case up, it’s just a toy. HE's now facing a dilemma as a graphic design major freshman college student that some courses DEMAND he use a Mac. But everyone else in the family prefers Macs.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: USB-C power connector
On Jan 3, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Jim Saklad via < jimdoc@...> wrote:
Jim Showalter wrote: My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct. Several years of Macbook Airs and 13” Macbook Bros had no MagSafe and only 2 Thunderbolt ports. Did you get Applecare?? If so, is it still in effect?
I bought it refurbished at Other World Computing with a 2 year warranty which expired in November last year.
Been considering getting a Macbook Air anyway. Must be time.
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Re: USB-C power connector
Jim Showalter wrote: My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct. Several years of Macbook Airs and 13” Macbook Bros had no MagSafe and only 2 Thunderbolt ports. Did you get Applecare?? If so, is it still in effect?
--? Jim Saklad jimdoc@...
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Re: USB-C power connector
My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 5:30 PM, Jim McGarvie via < jim@...> wrote:
I haven’t had that problem, but then I usually use the Mag-safe connector. On Jan 2, 2025, at 12:22, Jim Showalter via <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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