When you leave your home and have to go back because you might have forgot to put your garage door down, this app on your phone is great! You can see if it is down or up..If you forgot to put it down you can use your phone anywhere to control it...It works great!

Installing the Chamberlain MyQ Garage door controller was very easy. The 2 hardware components mounted without any problem. Syncing the unit to the wifi in my home took a couple of tries but it has been working well. With the smartphone app. downloaded to our I-phones we can control the garage door, check to see if it is up or down from where ever we are, and eliminate the nagging question, "Did I remember to close the garage when I left the house?" We also receive notifications on our phone letting us know whenever the garage door is opening or closing. Our existing remotes are also still usable and have not been made inoperable when I installed the Chamberlain. If you are considering purchasing one for yourself, you should check their website to see if your garage door opener is compatible with the MyQ.

We wanted to automate our house after we purchased and installed our Wink and WeMo connected light switches, after getting two Nest 3rd generation thermostats. Brought two of these Chamberlain MyQ Controllers so we could open up our two garage doors using our phone. We braced ourselves for a difficult install because our Internet router was pretty far from the garage area. We we pleasantly surprised how easy it was to hook into our Chamberlain made garage door opener and our router. Installed the two controllers and the two sensors in just under 30 minutes. Both controllers linked up easily using our iPhones. Unexpected advantage was the units will give both push notifications and emails when each of the garage doors are opened and closed with the time and date. Best yet, in case you rush out of the house, and can't remember if you closed the garage door, all you have to do is check the status using the MyQ app. The App can also link to your Nest system to monitor you heating and cooling, although the Nest app interface is more user friendly. Tip: If you are installing two units for two separate garage doors, make sure you mount the MyQ units as far away from each other as possible. We didn't do that and when one door opens using the app, the other unit sounds the alarm.

The only reason I am not giving this 5 stars is because of the app. The set up was a breeze. I rent so this option being as simple as it is happens to be a great way to be secure and I dont have to "install" a piece of hardware that is semi-permanent. All the options are a breeze for setup. I have even had to factory default the product (problems with openers) and was still easy to set up again. The notifications come through push and email which is great. I bought because of security suspicions of garage being open when I came home each day. I was able to find out that someone else in the neighbor hood somehow had their opener programmed for my door. In the process of figuring this out I was able to close the door immediately after it opened by the app and its notifications. Back to the bad about this. The app for android was developed by a second year programmer at best. The app only works correctly if you keep the screen on and it was the first time you opened the app. If the screen shut off sometimes you can go back to the app and control the door but most you see that there is no door to be found. The only way to remedy the problem of a missing door on the app is to kill the app. Yep, if you dont exit the app (double tap back <--other commenter said there was no exit but is wrong) you have to kill it to use the app again. I am in the habit of not exiting apps everytime I go to use another so this can be cumbersome but I dont mind a bit because the notifications are 100% accurate. In fact the app may be bad but I deprogrammed my garage door and this is the only one set to work.

I got the Chamberlain MyQ Garage Door controller because I sometimes forget to close the garage door or accidentally activate the garage remote that is on my key chain. Since I have a detached garage, I can't conveniently check if the garage door is closed. I've waken up in the morning and have found that the garage door was left open all night. The MyQ Garage Door controller was easy to install once I was able to get a WiFi signal to my detached garage. I needed to get a WiFi extender. Once the signal was present, it was very easy to get it installed and operational with my app. I set the alarm to notify me when the garage door opens. The app tells you how long the door was closed and you can open and close the garage door by tapping on the garage door that is displayed on the app. I did receive a notification in the middle of the day that my garage door opened. When I launched the app to check the door status, it said the garage door was closed, but it was only closed for a few minutes. I don't know if it was false signal or if the garage door really did open and then close. I'm going to install a smartcam in the garage that can automatically record "events". If I get another alarm from MyQ Garage that my door opened and I know no one is at home to open it, I can check if the garage really did open and close by itself. So far, I am satisfied with my purchase and would recommend it.