MyQ Smart Garage Door Opener Review: Quiet and Fun to Use

The store responds arsenic rapidly to the app arsenic it does to a regular fastener clicker, with 1 caveat: Choosing to adjacent the store with the app causes it to flash its lights and beep respective times earlier the store volition statesman to close, and volition inactive beep and flash until closing is complete. It's for information reasons, since the store doesn't cognize whether anyone other is successful the store portion you're closing it oregon whether you're adjacent to marque definite the store way is wide of anyone walking successful oregon out.

The lone mode astir this, sadly, is to not usage the app. You tin instal the MyQ Smart Garage Video Keypad ($99) extracurricular of your store to adjacent it without getting immoderate beeping and to get a akin acquisition to a video doorbell and astute fastener but for your garage. I tested 1 and it works fine—the cardinal codes are casual to acceptable up and you tin adjacent your store beep-free, positive you'll get alerts similar a information camera for extracurricular of your garage, but I had a mixed acquisition utilizing the telephone button. You besides person to drill it into your store oregon location exterior (MyQ says it's excessively dense to usage adhesive strips), which my home's HOA sadly forbids maine from doing. Still, it's a bully terms for a operation fastener and exterior video provender for your garage, if you're allowed to instal it.

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The default proprietor of the MyQ (that is, whoever acceptable it up archetypal successful your home) besides gets an onslaught of notifications each clip the store is opened and closed, whether via app oregon with your modular store doorway buttons. In comparison, erstwhile you're an added user, you won't get immoderate notifications by default. Both parties tin spell into the app, prime the cogwheel icon connected the store doorway (or different MyQ merchandise successful question), and edit the notifications they're getting for the circumstantial product.

I acceptable up some my and my husband's phones to get notifications astir our store being unfastened for much than 10 minutes, and different for myself if it was unfastened for an hour. You tin adhd a batch much notifications, and you tin besides acceptable it up to enactment with Amazon Key to get deliveries close into your store (and get notified astir that too). I haven't been capable to speech my hubby into utilizing it, but the included camera successful my exemplary makes maine consciousness comfy giving it a try.

Speaking of video, MyQ does person storage subscription plans for its video products (the marque besides has video store doorway openers, a video keypad, and a stand-alone camera). The archetypal tier starts astatine $20 a twelvemonth and goes up to $100 a year, and depending connected which tier you prime you get further features similar face, person, and question detection, detection zones, and either 7 oregon 30 days of storage.