One of my ex-sun co-workers tweeted about Garage. I was smitten and started to budget for it. Several items played against me on this one. First the garage door opened died and I had to use the funds for the Garageio to get a new opener. Then we started thinking about moving and I held off till we got to the Church. Then I discovered the garage door opener that came with the church was not Garageio compatible. And of course we had friends over for dinner one night and all they could talk about was how cool their Garageio was.
Our opener is a Liftmaster and it has an Internet gateway. I decided to give it a whirl. The setup was ridiculously simple. Plug the device into power and your router, create an account, download the app. The app guides you through adding your garage door opener as a device. You have to hit the learn button, like any other remote, but since you are doing it through the app, you can be in the garage to do it. Nice touch!
In all of about 10 minutes we now have an Internet enabled garage door opener. A unique feature is when you close the door with the app, the touch pad in the garage sounds an alarm as a fair warning. I am guessing they had to add this since you are closing the door without line of site of it. Truly loving the notifications when the door opens and closes, and the ability to double check the door is closed.
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