The app also has an Apple Watch component allowing door operation and status checking without needing to dig the phone out of my pocket, which, at least in my state is illegal when driving. Initially, I thought this might be annoying, but it’s added a large degree of comfort knowing when a family member arrives or leaves home. The app sends push notifications letting me know when the door operates.
Chamberlain also makes garage door openers with MyQ built in, so the Wi-Fi Hub isn’t needed. It’s compatible with many different opener manufacturers, but you should definitely check compatibility before you buy. The app walks through the setup process which connects to the device using Wi-Fi, adds the security credentials of my home network, and finally programs the MyQ to use the correct frequency to control my existing garage door opener. Before you ask, no, it’s not intelligent enough to know the exact position of the door so you can leave the door open a little for your cat to get in but does provide information that the door is open, closed, or in motion. Also included are the power supply and a wireless, battery-powered position sensor that attached with sticky tape and rides on the door to tell the base unit if the door is closed open. After creating an account, I found my Wi-Fi signal in the garage was sufficient so I placed in near the opener, mostly to centrally locate the light. It beeps and flashes a warning when about to close and the integrated area light stays on for a short time after the door opens or closes. For about two years, it has flawlessly controlled my Genie door opener. The first part of my system was the chamberlain Smart Garage Hub with MyQ Smart Phone Control. I’ve found it absolutely indispensable, particularly when I accept a ride in someone else’s car. I’ve used it to allow access to pet-sitters, repair people, meter readers, and open the door more than once when the battery in my vehicle opener was depleted. It’s allowed me to open, close and check the status of my garage door anywhere I have an internet connection, even half a planet away. Without a doubt, it’s one of my most frequently used home automation gadgets. I’ve owned and happily used Chamberlain’s MyQ Wi-Fi Hub happily for several years. This doesn’t happen much since installing the Chamberlin MyQ Wi-Fi Hub and Home Bridge. Inevitably, the door gets left open, creating an ideal habitat for many friendly (and not so friendly) woodland creatures. More times than not, we come and go through the garage door, even when not using a vehicle.
If your home is anything like mine, we don’t use our front door much. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. You definitely want to use that with MyQ as in my experience, the error on first try is very very frequent.We use affiliate links. But home assistant automations just added a new functionality to continue on error. A bit annoying but once you know the quirk, you can deal with it.īefore I had to do this using 2 scripts because an error always killed the entire automation. I have no idea why the first try throws errors so often but this is my workaround. If the first command throws an error, it is programmed to try again and it always works on the 2nd try. So an automation to open the garage looks like: open garage > wait 5 seconds > open garage. So in all of my automations, I always call the open or close commands twice. But if I just try opening again, it works. So if I try to open or close the garage, it throws an error. The only issue I have with it is that a lot of times, the first command fails. There is an integration you can setup with it and done. There is no annual fee for using it with home assistant.
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