Chamberlain - MyQ Garage Door Controller - Black

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!

This thing is awesome. Before buying I had few questions that I couldn't find the answer for on any of the reviews, I also called the MyQ company and was still not giving the answers I need, so I hope to answer the questions that others might have. First off my garage is finished (dry wall and all) so I really did not want to mount the device, did not want to drill holes, so my question was does it have to be drilled, the answer is NO. In fact I don't have mine in the garage, the company wants you to put in the garage for the flashing light and the alarm sound, but I use mine to just make sure it's closed when I'm away, so no need for the alarm in the first place, which leads me to the next question. Does the alarm sound when you close the garage door with the car remote or the keypad or or or? answer is NO, again the alarm only sounds and the light comes on ONLY when you use your smart phone to or use the online app to close the door. Alarm is loud but not as loud as some of the reviews make it out to be. Last question I had is the range, I have a 3 car garage with 2 doors, problem is I have 2 car garage on one side of the house and the 3rd car garage is on the other side of the house, would it reach with just a 2nd sensor or I need to buy another hub? answer is it does reach. That's another reason why I have the hub in the house to be in the center of both sensors, connects better to the WiFi network. I'm an OCD person and needed to take pics of my garage door closed when I went out of town, now I can just check my app and make sure it's closed. To upgrade my garage door opener was $450 each with installation, so for my setup it was $900, with this little hub and 2 sensors I was able to save $785 as I got it on sale from Best Buy. Also the sensors I didn't want to drill in my garage doors, so what I did was use the velcro it came with and added some external tape to keep it in place. Best of all, if we ever move, it is simple to take with me for the next house, unlike replacing the entire garage door opener.

This little thing has consistently impressed me. It’s not close to my router but has only dropped off the network 2 or 3 times in several years. And for being relatively inexpensive, this has ironically been more valuable than almost any other product I’ve purchased. It’s saved me when I’ve been locked out of the house multiple times. It saved my dog three times when the garage door didn’t stay closed I had no idea and was headed across town... An identical unit I purchased for my elderly Mother let’s me know via notification every morning that she’s gotten up and gone out to get the paper and walk her dog; as someone who prefers not to be forced to speak for as long as possible in the morning this has been a Godsend! And finally, in October when I had my garage broken into in the middle of the night, my phone told me a split second before my Doberman did... and the combination of a ghost garage door closing and Mango's where did that come from impersonation of the Hound of Baskerville from the warm side of my utility door meant that the lousy jerks dropped almost every tool they tried to carry off as they ran in terror from my garage- the last one getting clotheslined by my little garage gremlin as he lowered the door for me! On top of that, getting voice control with Google Assistant took about 45 seconds and suddenly and unexpectedly I had the ability to let people in from upstairs without even needing the app on the iPhone. Alexa still can’t do it, after a few hours of my time. I also really love having a record of time open and closed- and FYI I solved the occasional issue I was having where my garage would close all the way but after a brief pause on occasion open- I live a long block off a very busy road and my garage is the last unit in a complex - so it wasn’t hard for me to barely miss that occurrence by turning to pay attention to traffic - and as I mentioned the woman of the house is a really smart Doberman who was quite happy to go exploring... I created a custom alert that rather than just text me “Garage is Still Open” which I do have it do after 30minutes... I used the same alert but changed the parameters and message so I get a notification “Garage is still closed, “ about 5 minutes after the fact. That way before I get to the freeway I know if I need to make a upturn... After the second time it happened, Mango was just sitting in the garage looking at me driving up. She hates to be in trouble. Lol Another thing I really love is that it was easy to use IFTT to give me subtle hints that my door has opened or closed in case I didn’t hear it.

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 wish the MyQ Garage Door Controller existed years ago! I've had the product installed for about a month now and it's exactly what I wanted. There is no more driving back home or calling a neighbor to ensure the garage door is closed. The product works well and has nice features. I've had no issues controlling the door via the app or the old remote control and the door responds to requests from the app within seconds. The status of the door in the app is even correct when I manually open or close the garage door without engaging the garage door opener's motor. There is a visual flashing light and beeping audio alarm to alert people in the garage before the door is closed via the app. Another nice perk is that you can customize alerts through the app so you can be notified on your phone when the door is opened or if it's been left open too long. You can even setup time frames for when you'd like to receive the alerts. The physical installation of MyQ Wifi Hub and door sensor was very straight forward and took about 15 minutes. A first time do it yourselfer would have benefited from slightly more detailed printed instructions about things like when & how to use the included drywall anchors. But the overall installation was pretty easy. The software portion of the installation wasn't too bad, but did have a couple hiccups. I was able to get the Wifi Hub connected to my home network & 8 year old Chamberlain garage door opener in about 15 minutes using the bluetooth configuration in the app. MyQ relies on the app to provide most of the instruction for configuration here, but the app did a decent job of walking me through the required steps. I can't remember exactly why, but it took me about a half dozen attempts to get the wifi hub fully connected to my home internet & registered to my new MyQ account. Pairing the Wifi Hub with the garage door opener was a snap. I have been very please with my purchase of the MyQ Garage Door Controller and the added peace of mind has made this purchase worth every penny. I have no reservations in recommending this product.

Love it. I have the MyQ installed and used an extra sensor for the 2nd Garage Door. Haven't had any issues. Installed everything is about 10 minutes and it hasn't failed yet. Very reliable. Once I closed the Garage door with the regular Garage remote and it didn't update on the MyQ App so I got an alert that my door was still open but I just checked the Live Feed from my Garage CAM to verify it was closed and refreshed the MyQ App. I get notified when the Delivery Man pulls into my Driveway by the Ring Pro Doorbell and then Im able to open the Garage Door for him to set my package inside on the work bench. I then close the Garage door once he walks back to his truck. I have a CAM setup in the Garage so I know hes not stealing anything and I have the schalge fe599 door lever installed on my Garage door that leads into the house so I can make sure its locked. Everything is working well together. I use the SmartThings hub v2.

The Myq Garage controller syncs with my Sears Craftsman garage door opener very well. The only issue I had was setting up the hub to connect to my router. For whatever reason it took many tries and rebooting my router to finally get it to connect. Since then I've had close to no issues. I installed the Hub on the wall that had direct line of sight to my garage door opener because I didn't feel like climbing all the way to where my actual garage door opener was. No issues with this. I also have it set up to email me an alert anytime the door opens. It's convenient when I have guests coming to my house and instead of leaving a key lying around I can open the garage for them remotely. I think for what you get it's a little pricey but overall I'm pleased with it. My one recommendation is still keep a garage door opener with you because if your internet goes out you won't be able to operate it remotely.

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.