{"id":21347,"date":"2017-11-17T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T05:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/?p=21347"},"modified":"2017-11-20T22:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T06:03:04","slug":"how-to-automate-your-garage-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/how-to-automate-your-garage-door\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Automate Your Garage Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is sponsored by Chamberlain. I was paid for this post and received the featured Home Bridge as compensation.<\/p>\n

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Did you remember to close the garage door?  What about when you’re away from home, did your teen kids close the garage door after they were done in the garage? Wouldn’t it be great if you could know if your garage door is opened or closed?  Wouldn’t be cool to automate your garage door?<\/p>\n

When we bought our garage door opener 6 years ago, I made sure our LiftMaster was MyQ\u00ae ready.  What is MyQ\u00ae?  It’s Liftmaster’s\/Chamberlain’s automation capability built into all of their garage door openers since 2009. MyQ\u00ae is the brains that allows you to automate your garage door and control it remotely when paired with a MyQ\u00ae H<\/a>ome Bridge<\/a> device.<\/p>\n

As a mom interested in home technology, I knew I’d be dabbling in ways to automate our garage door one day.  Sure enough, the time has come!  Chamberlain sent me the MyQ\u00ae Home Bridge to install in my garage. I installed it right away.<\/p>\n

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Installing the MyQ\u00ae Home Bridge<\/h3>\n

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  1.  First, install the Chamberlain<\/a> or Liftmaster MyQ\u00ae App<\/a>, whichever garage controller you have.<\/li>\n
  2.  Before you can install the MyQ\u00ae Home Bridge, you need to ensure your WiFi signal reaches your garage.  This is essential to ensure your garage automation will be successful.  Liftmaster\/Chamberlain recommends that you have at least 2 bars showing on your chosen WiFi channel.  My WiFi showed only one bar, but I continued anyway.<\/li>\n
  3.  Next, I pressed the settings button on the MyQ\u00ae Home Bridge until the blue light flashed, telling me it was ready for pairing.\"\"<\/li>\n
  4.  In the instructions, it shows that I need to press a yellow button on our garage controller 3 times.  However, to do this was not easy, as the garage controller is up high.  I remembered that my remote control that hangs next to my door into the house might have a learn button – sure enough, it did.  I pressed the Learn button and my remote garage control communicated with the app.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       Before I knew it, the garage controller had connected to the MyQ\u00ae app….success!<\/p>\n

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    To open my garage door, all I had to do was press the garage door in the MyQ\u00ae app and the garage door opened.  I could see the animated garage door in the app open at the same time.  So cool!<\/p>\n

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    Once my MyQ\u00ae was connected to my garage door, I could set up alerts so I know when my garage door opens and when it closes. <\/p>\n

    I also set up a time schedule that MyQ\u00ae will close the garage door every night at 7 pm, just in case we forgot to close it.<\/p>\n

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    How To Automate Your Garage Door<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Chamberlain\/Liftmaster sell light switches to work MyQ\u00ae so that when the Home Bridge senses the garage door opening, your MyQ\u00ae light switches <\/a>can automatically turn on.  But with today’s constantly evolving tech interactivity, you could already have some sort of home automation in your house…and MyQ\u00ae will likely work with it too.<\/p>\n

    You can link your MyQ\u00ae to other technology partners<\/a>:<\/p>\n