Smart Garage Control - Wireless Garage Hub and Sensor with Wifi & Bluetooth - Smartphone Controlled, myQ-G0401-ES, White

I've had this installed and their app running for about 7 months (DIY by me, a 60+ y/o female). It was easy to install and worked right away. There are helpful videos on-line you can watch also (and I ran it on my laptop while in the garage to follow along with the steps to install). It has been great UNTIL YESTERDAY - but their CUSTOMER SERVICE PHONE PERSON WAS GREAT! Which is why I'm finally reviewing this. App stopped showing the control and acted like I needed to set up a new unit suddenly. I tried unplugging it, and even unplugged my router. That didn't resolve it. The app stopped recognizing that I had the Hub and sensor installed. The HELP/APP CHAT on my phone was useless and a waste of time IMHO, but gave me a phone number to call for help. After calling you need to give answers to an (AI??) agent voice. NOTE: be sure you hear a clicking after your answers when first calling, or you'll just be sitting there while waiting for it to recognize your answer! Happened to me, and it was waiting for a YES answer not explanation! Once that was done, I was connected quickly to help. Agent was patient even when my phone cut out a few times since I was in the garage. He even asked if he could call me back if we were disconnected. He walked me through the app menu to get to where I could reset the hub (turned out the hub on the garage door wasn't connecting). He waited until all steps on app were followed by me (many are skipped such as installing Chamberlain units on wall and garage door). I re-paired our (Genie) Garage door opener to the unit (HELPFUL HINT - use a long broom handle rather than have to get on a ladder to push the pairing button!!) and he waited until the garage door worked (lights blinked and unit beeps and door opened once paired) and waited to make sure I was able to see the unit in my app to control it and close the door. It's a great unit, and It's been nice to be able to open the door with the app while in my vehicle. Really, it has worked great for 7 months. I did have to change out the battery on the small hub that attaches to the inside of the garage door much sooner than I thought (about 2 months after I first got it installed). I had a notification in the app that it was low. It was easy to do and the battery was available at my grocery store. If for some reason I ever need to get another one, I'd choose Chamberlain. Worked great with my 9 y/o Genie Model 4024 garage door opener and I feel they'd help with any issues I may have in the future.

My old sensor disappeared when I had a my garage door replaced. It was on the old door and didn't make the transfer to the new door. I had the old version, still do on other doors, of this product. I was pleasantly surprised how easy this new version was to set up, and works with the app. Setup is a breeze. Just follow the directions. Took my maybe 10-15 minutes to install, setup, and verify it works. Works fantastically. Price was reasonable. There was plenty of cord length and wire length to get everything plugged in. Connected to the app and my internet first try. Great product. Lets me know everything going on with my garage door and opener unit.

I love getting a notice on my phone that my garage door has opened or closed...and I can just look at the app on my phone to see if I closed the door when I left. If I didn't close it, I can just close it from my phone. If someone needs access to my garage while I'm away, I can let them in easily. After two months, it just works! I had a GoGo Gate system which worked, but the battery leaked in one of the door sensors. It cost less to get the Chaimberlain system than to buy just GoGo Gate sensor. Installing this device was easy and straight forward. I have it connected to both Genie and Chamberlain garage door openers in the same garage and it works flawlessly with both. My only installation issue was that I could not tell that the "learn" button on the Chamberlain opener is purple, not red/orange. Tech Support helped me with that issue and was not judgemental, which he could have been, maybe should have been. Unlike the GoGo Gate, this unit does not have to be wired to the garage door opener. It uses the same wireless technology as the remote or HomeLink in the car. Just install the app on the phone and the app walks you through the setup process...plug it in, connect the app to the controller, mount the sensors on the doors with sticky tape, let the garage door learn it (you do have to determine what color the learn button is), and it works.

Let me start by saying I am a tech savvy-enough millennial but, admittedly, a latecomer to the smart home realm. As it happens, my husband and I both constantly question whether or not we had shut the garage door upon leaving the house. What a great technology to solve our problem and set our minds at ease! Wrong. Ohhh how innocently wrong we were. So here we go. Set up was a breeze. Installed the app and had the Smart Garage Control installed and working within 20 minutes. How cool is this! We could tell when the garage door was open, the app would notify us if the door was open for more than 10 minutes, and we could close the door from anywhere in the world on the app! Perfect! Love it. Wrong. My husband and I leave for the gym at 2:12pm (I know this because the history in the app told me. Cool!). We come home from the gym at 3:52…to the garage door WIDE OPEN (very NOT cool!) I pop open the app and it tells me it has been open for 8 minutes…since 3:44. Who opened the garage 8 minutes prior to us coming home you might ask? No clue. But it wasn’t the app. Quite perplexing and unnerving. Nevertheless, the app would have notified me that it had been open after 10 minutes. So at least there was that. WRONG. I’m leaving to walk the dogs and the door randomly closes as I’m walking past it…13 minutes after it miraculously opened. No notification that it was open for more than 10 minutes. WTF. Now I’m starting to think I’ve angered the smart home gods. So I’m walking my dogs, opening and closing the garage door on the app. Everything’s working as it should, except the notifications. I leave the door open to see how the app will notify me after 10 minutes. Spoiler: it doesn’t. I get back from our walk at 4:40pm and set out to do some internet sleuthing to figure out 1. Why the door is opening on its own and 2. Why I’m not getting notifications in the app. Well, the internet has thoughts and I try them. I unlearn and relearn all the remotes to the garage, uninstall and reinstall the app. Phew. How great is technology and the peace of mind it brings. WRONG! Fast forward to today. As I’m slightly paranoid by the occurrences of yesterday, I unplug the Smart Control panel…just in case. I get home from work 8 hours after my husband had left for work…to a WIDE OPEN GARAGE! Now, I’m a reasonable person and I can problem solve but how in the robot hell does the garage randomly open when the robot is UNPLUGGED?? The only rational conclusion I could come to was this f*ing thing was possessed by some Chamberlain demon or the robots were staging a coup. Either way, it needed to go. Now. I perform a Smart Garage Control exorcism by resetting the control panel to factory settings, pulled the power from the robot, and took the sensor off the door. I sent it back to the hell from which it came in hopes to appease this garage demon. As a further step I reset all the garage door openers again and will sage the entire house. Please keep us, our sanity, and the security of our home in your thoughts. P.S. Never once did the app notify me of any opening or closing or ghost openings. P.S.S. I am not interested in risking another robot uprising so my home will remain a dumb home.

I was reading reviews of door opener apps and there were many good reviews of this adapter. In fact, they suggestd getting a MyQ enabled opener. I priced that option. It was $900+. Instead I spent $25 on this adapter because I have very good liftmaster openers on both of garager doors. Installation was very easy. You have to use the app. If you don't want to use an app, don't get a MyQ device because the only benefit of MyQ is app compatability. The app walks you through the installation. There were no problems other than our garage has one outlet and it is inconvenient. So, I ran an extension cord to it. After install, the app and device work seamlessly. I was able to get everyone invited. For ease there, we used our existing gmail accounts to sign into the app. Then, logging in doesn't require an extra step because we are already logged into our phones. After install and use, I tested it out. It is slow to close the door because it beeps for a while and then closes the door. Openining is immediate. I had no issues with the network becasue the router is on the opposite side of the wall from the main MyQ hub. If anything, it is too close. After that, I looked into connecting it to Android Auto. It turns out that all of the articles I read are old. MyQ doesn't work with Google Home, Google Assistant, or Android Auto. I couldn't even find a way to open it from the car's interface. It is an independent app. To use it, you have to open the MyQ app on your phone (because there no way to get to it otherwise) and use it. My idea of having a garage door button in Android Auto will have to wait to see if Chamerlain and Google ever decide to play nice with one another.

This system is great especially if you have an older garage opener. Our garage door openers were installed in 2003 and it was compatible. Make sure you check before your purchase, but it seems to cover quite a few systems. It was pretty straight forward install for most DIY people out there. We love the app and the ability to close it from the app. Especially like the available schedule built into the app. We were waking up in the morning once and a while only to find we left the garage door open all night long. Now we have ours set to close automatically at 9 pm, haven't left the garage door open since we got it! No more asking your other half if they closed the garage door after you went to bed and then having to get up and go check. You can just bring up the app to check the status. It also gives alerts if selected on the app as to when it opens and closes. You can open and close the doors from anywhere.

Works well if you’re having an issue with an 828LM controller that doesn’t show fully open and shows stopped instead. The sensor shows open or closed. I initially bought two hubs each with a sensor since it was only $5 more and would arrive a day earlier. I’m glad I did, because if you have one hub controlling more than one door, it seems to only be able to control one door at a time. So now I have each of my two garage doors with its own dedicated hub. Now I can open or close both doors at the same time. The behavior I was seeing with one hub and multiple garage doors was if I opened or closed one right after the other like two cars arriving or departing at close to the same time that the second door would show to be opening or closing in the app but actually wouldn’t be doing anything. Works great and the app does a great job of walking through setup steps. Worked reliably to set up and even to configure again without any issues. Works great with my older 2019 Teslas that have Homelink but sometimes didn’t open or close unless in the right spot and my newer Tesla that doesn’t have Homelink. I think MyQ is a reasonable value as a 10 year subscription for one household. Nice to see door open/closed status in the car. Recommend just mounting on the ceiling. The mounting brackets don’t really save time or make the install look cleaner than just mounting to the ceiling in my case, but your mileage may vary.

Super easy to install and connect! To be fair, it might have been easy because my garage door is a chamberlain already, so there was no weird compatibility issues. In addition, my internet access in the garage is pretty decent, so I'm sure that helped. All in all this took about 10-15 minutes to install, and that was with running back upstairs twice to get parts from the box that I should've brought outside with me in the first place. Everything connected just fine the first time through with no issues. I love being able to open it from my phone or even my apple watch, so when I go for runs and so forth I don't need to even think about it, I've got what I need with me already. The ability to use with amazon key is an extra plus, for if I'm getting something delivered I'd rather not be accessible to porch pirates.