Anyone use these devices that allow you access to garage doors via an app. A few times I’ve had to backtrack to check to make sure my door was closed.
Always was, but you never know.
Always was, but you never know.
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duane_wade
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I've got an old fashioned man (or woman) operated garage door opener and don't have to worry about some driving down the road seeing whose garage door they can open.
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bigwheelzip
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I use the "Homelink" button built into the car to open the garage door, but I have a phone app that can remotely operate the locks on the car and start it.
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Anyone use these devices that allow you access to garage doors via an app. A few times I’ve had to backtrack to check to make sure my door was closed.
Always was, but you never know.
I have it on my phone but I've never tried it at any kind of distance.
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You have MYQ or similar?
I have MyQ set up on my phone. It works when I am in the house but I have no way of checking it out at a distance without leaving the garage door open while I'm not at the house.
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I have Chamberlain's myQ.
My son has it as well as both my FIL and BIL.
I have had mine for over a decade starting life with the Chamberlain garage door opener.
We have all had ours for over a decade.
None of us would choose anything else.
I love the app.
Wherever I am, I can be notified of the opening and closing of my garage door.
I utilize that feature daily.
Momma's grocery shopping and gets home. Bam. I am waiting to help her bring in the stuff.
If we are out of town and the grandkids come over to water the indoor plants I just open the door from wherever I am, in the world. Ha.
It is a quality piece of equipment and has never failed me.
Both of my vehicles are 'linked' as well.
Push the button in the car to open or close.
Works flawlessly.
I also have 'monitor' that was gifted to me by Chamberlain. Place it anywhere in your house and it will status your door position.
I have the model with the battery backup. If you lose power the battery has enough juice to open and close your garage door a number of times. Powers out? You are not locked in the garage. You just push the button. Door will still open.
I personally would purchase no other.
bdGreen
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Interesting thread. This remote monitoring and control stuff is increasingly widespread.
I have the built-in garage door open/close button on my car's rear rear view mirror. I think most newer cars have that now. Buttons for three doors. My car app has remote start/stop, too, although I saw in the manual that if you do not drive the car for a week, this functionality may become disabled. The car app will report a door left open. Probably other stuff as well that I have not noticed.
I have an app on my iPhone that lets me monitor, or start/stop my Kohler whole house generator from anywhere. It sends me notifications here in Japan that back home in Oregon it's faithfully doing its weekly exercise. The contractor who installed the Kohler monitors it as well.
Before traveling to Japan this time, I installed a SimpliSafe home monitoring system. That can be turned on or off from anywhere with an app, too. Any doors or windows get breached while it's on, I'll get notifications as to where in the house this has happened. If I don't respond, SimpliSafe's monitoring center's personnel will call my friend in the neighborhood. If he's not okay with it, then they call the cops. Meanwhile, cameras, indoors and out, are recording the activity.
Mostly for amusement, I can review short automatic video recordings of activity in my front and back yards, like my neighbor and her son retrieving a ball from my backyard a couple of weeks ago. Or I can choose to watch live from multiple cameras, indoors and out.
The SimpliSafe system, which you buy by components depending on your needs, cost me less than $500. While out of country I purchase their full up monitoring for ~$30/month, but can turn that off when I return to the US in June. It was relatively easy to install, and the company cheerfully supplies as much handholding as you want during the install, which I appreciated.
Here at my Japan house we've had a professionally installed and monitored security system for many years. It does not, however, provide us the capability to monitor cameras from afar. (It has a camera covering the entrance to the property which the security company monitors.) So I've installed a couple of inexpensive Amazon Blink cameras, indoors and out. I think the outdoors one cost about $100. That one has a two-year battery. The indoors one cost about $35, and is powered by a regular electrical outlet. With the app on my phone and tablet, I can turn on the cameras from anywhere to see what is going on. I can set them to record activity as well for later viewing, although if you want cloud storage you have to pay for it. (Thumb drive storage is available, too.) These Blink camera are just so when we're in the US we can keep a casual eye on the place. Any breaches of the house itself will be handled by the Japanese security service.
All of the cameras above work day or night. They all have two-way voice, too.
Pretty amazing technology, at affordable pricing, out there these days.
I have the built-in garage door open/close button on my car's rear rear view mirror. I think most newer cars have that now. Buttons for three doors. My car app has remote start/stop, too, although I saw in the manual that if you do not drive the car for a week, this functionality may become disabled. The car app will report a door left open. Probably other stuff as well that I have not noticed.
I have an app on my iPhone that lets me monitor, or start/stop my Kohler whole house generator from anywhere. It sends me notifications here in Japan that back home in Oregon it's faithfully doing its weekly exercise. The contractor who installed the Kohler monitors it as well.
Before traveling to Japan this time, I installed a SimpliSafe home monitoring system. That can be turned on or off from anywhere with an app, too. Any doors or windows get breached while it's on, I'll get notifications as to where in the house this has happened. If I don't respond, SimpliSafe's monitoring center's personnel will call my friend in the neighborhood. If he's not okay with it, then they call the cops. Meanwhile, cameras, indoors and out, are recording the activity.
Mostly for amusement, I can review short automatic video recordings of activity in my front and back yards, like my neighbor and her son retrieving a ball from my backyard a couple of weeks ago. Or I can choose to watch live from multiple cameras, indoors and out.
The SimpliSafe system, which you buy by components depending on your needs, cost me less than $500. While out of country I purchase their full up monitoring for ~$30/month, but can turn that off when I return to the US in June. It was relatively easy to install, and the company cheerfully supplies as much handholding as you want during the install, which I appreciated.
Here at my Japan house we've had a professionally installed and monitored security system for many years. It does not, however, provide us the capability to monitor cameras from afar. (It has a camera covering the entrance to the property which the security company monitors.) So I've installed a couple of inexpensive Amazon Blink cameras, indoors and out. I think the outdoors one cost about $100. That one has a two-year battery. The indoors one cost about $35, and is powered by a regular electrical outlet. With the app on my phone and tablet, I can turn on the cameras from anywhere to see what is going on. I can set them to record activity as well for later viewing, although if you want cloud storage you have to pay for it. (Thumb drive storage is available, too.) These Blink camera are just so when we're in the US we can keep a casual eye on the place. Any breaches of the house itself will be handled by the Japanese security service.
All of the cameras above work day or night. They all have two-way voice, too.
Pretty amazing technology, at affordable pricing, out there these days.
OP
I ordered two MYQ today on Amazon, 33% off. Thanks for the feedback.
I have openers on the visor too, MYQ isn’t about that.
I have openers on the visor too, MYQ isn’t about that.
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My I phone called 911 twice in my pocket before I disabled the quick dial feature. i want to talk and wake up from my phone. I like the internet on it but I don't want it to think, just obey.
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Not MYQ, but I recently replaced an older Overhead Door opener with a new Genie Smart opener. The old one was still working well, but it was getting noisy and I couldn't program the Homelink button on the vehicles to it for some reason. The new one has Genie's version of MyQ (called Aladdin) built in. With the Aladdin app on my phone I can open or close the door from anywhere I have an internet connection. It comes in handy now and then, but the biggest advantage is how quiet the new belt drive opener is compared to the old chain drive. Another nice feature is the auto close. You can set the time on the opener for it to close the door automatically if you forget and leave it open. I set it for 5 minutes. It's good peace of mind, but it can be a bit annoying if you're working in the yard or on a car and want the door to stay up. To do that I have learned to block the sensor beam.
Oh, and the new one is easy to program to the Homelink buttons.
Oh, and the new one is easy to program to the Homelink buttons.
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I have MyQ and it works very well. I highly recommend it.
I also have security cameras that I can monitor from my phone and see the garage door. MyQ has never been wrong if I double check it with the camera. I quit checking it.
I also have security cameras that I can monitor from my phone and see the garage door. MyQ has never been wrong if I double check it with the camera. I quit checking it.
Tom S.
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In the world of apps, MyQ stinks. When it works, it's great, but it goes through periods when the app doesn't work because it relies on a third party source. In other words, the app doesn't interface directly between your phone and the garage door opener, it has to send the signal from the phone to a server that then sends the signal to the garage door opener and vice-versa. If you Google (or Duck-Duck-Go) search the app, you'll see lots of complaints about it. I experienced an outage that coincidentally happened when I switched to a new phone. At first I blamed the phone, removed and reinstalled the app, and then tried using my old phone. The old phone gave the same error message, and that's when I discovered all the complaints on line about MyQ randomly quitting.
In most cases, the app not working is an inconvenience but if you happen to rely on the app to get you into the garage, such as I was, it can be a real pita. I had left my keys at home and had gone somewhere with a friend, knowing I could open the garage door (and thus access my home) with my phone. Since all my neighbors have keys to my house, I just went and got one of theirs but it was a hassle because I had to find one of them who happened to be home, and it was COLD outside at the time!
I have since programed Alexa to open and close the door, either using one of my Alexa Echo Dots, or via the phone. It doesn't show whether the door is open or closed, but it at least doesn't leave me standing in the cold.
In most cases, the app not working is an inconvenience but if you happen to rely on the app to get you into the garage, such as I was, it can be a real pita. I had left my keys at home and had gone somewhere with a friend, knowing I could open the garage door (and thus access my home) with my phone. Since all my neighbors have keys to my house, I just went and got one of theirs but it was a hassle because I had to find one of them who happened to be home, and it was COLD outside at the time!
I have since programed Alexa to open and close the door, either using one of my Alexa Echo Dots, or via the phone. It doesn't show whether the door is open or closed, but it at least doesn't leave me standing in the cold.
bigwheelzip
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..... but it at least doesn't leave me standing in the cold.
Yeah, all these systems are at risk.
Insteon, one of the early giants in home automation, recently shutdown without warning.
Smart home company Insteon finally breaks silence after turning off the lights on users
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Put my first MYQ up today on double door. Works as promised. Second goes up tomorrow on other door.
Lee in Quartzsite
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I’ve had SS for 12 years. I recently figured out how to mount an entry sensor on both of my garage doors. I HAVE driven off leaving a door open twice AND I have gone to bed with the door open. Now I if I activate the alarm it will show me if the garage …or any other door or window is open, plus I can see it from the App.
wood714
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I have a $29 WYZE camera in my garage that will notify me of any movement in the garage.
Also have one aimed at the side garage door.
If I think I may have left the door up, I just check the camera.
From right now.
Also have one aimed at the side garage door.
If I think I may have left the door up, I just check the camera.
From right now.
OFT II
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I haven't been able to get the car in the garage in years.
I have it and find it gives me peace of mind to be able to verify that I shut the garage door without going back to look.
We were in Bogota a few years ago having dinner with some friends and I let their son play with my phone. Somehow he got MYQ active and opened my garage door from Colombia. Luckily, I noticed it right away and was able to close the door again.
We were in Bogota a few years ago having dinner with some friends and I let their son play with my phone. Somehow he got MYQ active and opened my garage door from Colombia. Luckily, I noticed it right away and was able to close the door again.
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I just recently had a new home built and it came with MYQ. It works very well but last week my phone sent me an alert that one of the gaage doors was opened. After jumping out of bed and checking, the garage door was still closed - the velcro glue had released and the devise fell off the door - lol.
Simple fix was to use a better grade and a larger piece of Velcro. So far - so good. Other than the Velcro issue, it works very well.
Simple fix was to use a better grade and a larger piece of Velcro. So far - so good. Other than the Velcro issue, it works very well.
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I used the spare velcro attachments I have for my EZ Pass. The one that comes with the MYQ is kind of chintzy.
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Yes - After falling off I used a 2" x 2" piece of genuine Velcro brand - it's the best one - but your E-Z Pass comes with really tough velcro like plastic that is very very strong. My garage door is insulated and the surface the devise sticks to is a bit slippery. This real velcro on now should work just fine.
