Liftmaster MyQ Garage Universal Smartphone Garage Door Controller, 821 lm

I purchased this to interface my iPhone to my 10 year old Chamberlain garage door opener. It works by allowing your phone to connect to it via the internet. You run an app on your phone that sends commands to the larger box in the photo, which must be connected to your home network via wifi. That box then sends out the open/close command to your garage door opener exactly as if it were one of the hand held remotes that came with the door opener. Remember when you had to "Pair" your remotes with your garage door opener? You have to do the equivalent operation with this box, too. The instructions are very clear on how to do this as well as connecting the device to your home network.The smaller box in the picture is a sensor that goes on the garage door itself. It comes with sticky foam adhesive strips and screws as well. I just cleaned off a patch of garage door using Formula 409 (got all the dirt and grease off) and figured the foam adhesive strips would be fine on their own. So far, that has been the case after a hot summer in California. The job of the sensor is to send messages back and forth to the control box (the one described in the previous paragraph) that let it know whether the door is currently open or closed. It senses this with some sort of tilt-sensing mechanism and a simple radio of some sort. The sensor is cool in that it enables the system to tell you whether your door is open or closed. since the main controller is connected to the internet, you can figure out whether your door is open or closed even when you are not in sight of it. Very cool! Even cooler, your garage door can message your phone and let you know when the door has been open or closed and for how long. On the iPhone, it does this in background mode as well as when the app is on.The internet connectivity allows the garage door to be opened or closed when you are not nearby. That is, you have the capability to be in across the country and as long as you have connectivity, you can open or close the door. This comes in handy when you get that call from a family member or room mate who accidentally locked themselves out without a key, for instance, or you need to let a maid or contractor in or out of the house without you being there and without giving them a key. Because you don't need to be there, the controller has a safety feature that some find annoying, but I find assuring. The feature is that the unit will flash a light (the shiny area in the middle of the box in the picture) and emit a beep for something like 10 seconds before closing the door. There is no beep or light when opening the door. Other reviewers have said they wanted to be able to defeat this "feature" so they can just close the door quickly and without the sound. I suspect we are a few thousand lawyer years away from that working out :-)All the necessary mounting gear was in the box and a bit more. The instructions were very clear and correct. I've had it for months now, and couldn't be happier. I recommend this for anyone who wants to plug their garage door into "the internet of things".

Do not buy, absolute garbage! I’ve had the MyQ bridge and hub for about 7 years. It has worked for maybe a couple of months total and the only times I’ve needed it it doesn’t work at all. Not reliable or dependable, and they want you to pay for subscription to use with Siri. I hate this stupid thing, anybody want it?

So easy to set up. Now let me explain. I am not a handy guy. I had my doubts as I researched this as to whether or not I would be able to properly install it and set it up. I thought I'd bypass the instructions and just set it close to my garage door opener on a shelf rather than install it "the right way". But man was it easy.The main unit is very light weight. The instructions are clear, but you really need to take your time to follow them or you'll get mixed up and may need to reset to factor defaults and start over. The process isn't complicated, but it is multi-step and you must follow those steps in order. You need to have a decent WIFI connection near your garage door opener for this to work.I bought this because my son kept leaving the garage door open when he left for school for the day. I wanted a way to be able to verify it was closed, and to be able to close it remotely if it wasn't. This did the trick.After pairing the unit with my garage door opener, and installing the sensor on the garage door itself (which is ridiculously simple), I setup the app for my smartphone and in just a few minutes I was done. I did end up installing the main unit in the ceiling next to the opener. It was easy to do.When I paired the main unit with my opener, my keypad installed outside the garage stopped working. I contacted tech support and they thought it might be due to my having reached the limit on how many devices I could pair with my opener. They were right. I had paired old cars, old remotes, etc. Once I followed their instructions, I was able to resolve the issue. They were very quick to respond and very knowledgable.I have been really happy with this. I've been using it for about 2 months now. The price is right too! I highly recommend this product.

I have this product for a few days and so far no issues. I work at night and have kids that have a bad habit of leaving th garge open. After a few thing scame up missing I decided I needed to invest in something like this. It comes as deceived and very basic. It took me a few tries to set it up correctly. I have an iPhone and the instructions for the iPhone weren't working, however it also comes with instructions for other phones. I went ahead and used those. It took me a few try's to set up because there is a certain order it which it needs to be done, that I don't feel is covered in the instructions. After about 45min-1hour I did have it all set up and ready to go. The app is great. It has some features I do not need or want but it's nice to know it's there. I wanted something very basic. I can login into the app from anywhere and see if my garage door is open, how long it has been open, if it is closed and how long it has been closed. Lastly, and the most important. I can open or close it from the app. From anywhere I am! It also has a notification that I set to text me when my garage has been open for longer then 1 hour! This is great!There is the option to be noticed when it opens every time but I am not concerned about that. You can change the notifications to two or three hours, and beyond. Over all great product so far and exactly what I was looking for.