8/17/2023 0 Comments Chamberlain myq home control![]() The official myQ Home Bridge is a typical smart hub, in that it’s a box that plugs into power and connects to your Wi-Fi. Many countries have different frequencies approved for door openers, so they won’t be able to communicate even if they have myQ. The bridge only supports US voltage sockets, and only US garage door frequencies. If you’re outside the US, you’re likely out of luck. The two models you’ll be looking for are either the Chamberlain myQ-G0303-SP or the LiftMaster MYQ 819LMB. ![]() You don’t need both types for a set up to get HomeKit support, a myQ Home Bridge model will suffice, and will also act as a normal myQ bridge/gateway allowing connection of you door opener to Chamberlain’s cloud service and myQ app. The myQ Home Bridge devices (both Chamberlain and LiftMaster branded equivalents) are specific models designed with HomeKit support in addition to that basic function. ![]() There are a few myQ garage door opener devices that act as a translators between myQ and Wi-Fi. The myQ Smart Garage Hub is the basic myQ version of this, but doesn’t support HomeKit.Ī garage door motor is the actual hardware that opens and closes the garage doors, usually mounted on the ceiling of you garage.Īdditionally, a myQ Home Bridge is the name of Chamerlain’s official HomeKit enabled garage door opener for myQ hardware, while Homebridge is an open source bridge solution that provides HomeKit integration for a wide variety of third party products and services. This may act as a bridge to your garage door motor, depending on how it connects. For clarity I’ll use them as below:Ī residential garage door opener is a smart device that connects to your Wi-Fi network and allows for app control so you can use and monitor your garage door remotely. ‘Garage door opener’ is a term that is used loosely to mean different parts of the system. There are a couple of terms that need to be clarified in this discussion. All these smarts are great, but if a thief can simply open your door with a piece of wire, then having a door in the first place is a bit pointless. Keep in mind basic physical security as well. ![]() To actually use that feature, you’ll need a bridge device in order to connect to it to your home network so you can use a smart home platform or smart phone app. This only allows them to talk to other myQ devices, though. Many garage door motors now support myQ, and not just one’s from the Chamberlain group. MyQ technology is Chamberlain’s proprietary communication system that allows their myQ app to talk to other myQ smart devices like door remotes, lights, cameras, and their internet service, on top of your myQ garage door. The first thing to keep in mind is that for any official smart home support, you’ll need a myQ enabled garage door opener. Let’s take a look at the official solution first. There are, however, good alternatives for Wi-Fi garage door openers in general, and for Apple HomeKit a couple of options stand out depending on your current setup and budget. While they have promised that existing devices will continue to work, they haven’t demonstrated much in the way of good faith when it comes to their smart home customers. What’s worse is that Chamberlain have officially discontinued the HomeKit compatible myQ Home Bridge citing low demand. The ongoing nature of these disruptions creates some uncertainty with any access you may have to their myQ service going forward. Without getting into details, there have been a number of cases where access has been blocked, dropped or pay walled. The Chamberlain group hasn’t been making any friends in the smart home market of late, with what could be called anti-consumer behavior. So you have a Chamberlain group (or LiftMaster) myQ enabled garage door motor and want to add Apple HomeKit support for myQ? There are a few ways to do this, the most obvious being Chamberlain’s own myQ Home Bridge device with HomeKit support.Ĭonsider carefully if this is the best option, however. When you buy through links in this article, I may earn an affiliate commission.
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