hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of the liftmaster 82 8 LM
Internet gateway so this little device pretty much makes your garage door
opener smart and with me purchasing a house and
having a garage for the first time this is the first thing that I did to smarten
up my home because well one I want to know if my garage door is open or closed
and two I want to be able to open or close it remotely and three I only was
given one garage door opener so app-based garage door opener for the
win so the dimensions of the lift master gate Internet gateway here are 4 inches
long 2 inches tall and with a depth of 1 inch it is pretty much just a
nondescript black piece of plastic the top matte finish sides also a matte
finish there's a reset button there that side has nothing this side is pretty
much all that you get which is your power and your CAT cable stick it in there
so you actually have Internet the back of it consists of information that I'm
trying to hide which are the serial number which you'll need to activate it
as well as the model and the date for which your particular Internet gateway
was manufactured there are three LED lights on the top there is green blue
and a orange orange you will only see during setup green and blue or what
you're going to want to see all the time now they they make other models of
Internet gateways they have ones that rely on Wi-Fi and you have them over in
your garage this one you actually do need ethernet plug right into it in
order to use it so that this is going to sit closer to your Wi-Fi router than the
other models this one's a little more expensive but you don't have to worry
about your Wi-Fi signal reach out there because you're a hard-line into it so
the question since you have to this plugged in all the time how much
power does it actually use well it's not terrible it only uses 1.2 watts of power
and I tested does using this to trigger your garage door
increase the power usage it does not but also because it's plugged directly in
how fast it reconnects to your network if power is lost because the my new
place seems to lose power a little more regularly than my old one because well
I'm not on a fire substation connection anymore but if if you lose power it
takes 11 seconds to reconnect itself so it's not terrible
now you do not only just get the Liftmaster internet gateway here in the
box you also get included three-foot ethernet cable and a 5 foot power cable
so for most that'll give you a little wiggle room as to where you can place
this now the other thing to consider is because nothing is actually hardwired
into this if you needed a longer cable you could actually do that now the other
two things that come in the box are actually just the Quick Start Guide and
then they slightly more advanced guide it's not terrible to actually set this
up so why don't I show you how that looks like I did it on the computer
however you can use your cell phone you can use your smartphone and it will look
very much the same now the next step is to create a lift master account now I
already did so we're not going to go through that process here however we are
going to come up and add a new device which can also be done clicking the cog
so you can click either this or that so we're just going to come here we're
gonna say add a place which is actually adding a device not a place and then
it's going to ask you for the serial number that was on the back of the
device so in my case we're gonna put that in alright so we entered the serial
number that was on the back now we have to give it a name so for this case you
know enter name for a place where it is located I home so we're going to call it
home call it home garage here we go place and we could add another device if
we wanted to place is just the name now we say at the device had a device so
garage door opener we're gonna say garage door opener so we are going to
need to go to our garage and locate the pairing button so we're going to go out
to the garage or and take camera when we're ready we're gonna select this add
and then it will pair the gate that we just put to the garage door opener
alright so we're going to press the Add button and then we're gonna go out and
select the pairing button for a remote your lift master now goes into pairing
mode notice that it's showing orange for my particular garage door opener the
pair button is hiding and there you go hiding up there so I had to kind of pop
this back cover off but we're gonna click it and get back inside
so after pair pressing the pairing button on the garage door opener came
back inside it is now blue and our desktop has now
changed so here we go garage door opener we're going to select yeah we're just
gonna leave it with this name and hit save
so there you go it shows that the garage door well garage door opener and has been
closed for 1 minute so from here if we wanted to I can click on this and it
will open the garage door now there also is the accompany app which they have
unified it used to be two different apps that you'd have to get one if you had
this particular type of gateway and one if you had the Wi-Fi version inside so
just install this app and we'll cover the app a little later showing
liftmaster app in action
if just countdown timer too
shows that it's completed might be a little hard to see also send the
notification now closing sadly there's no way to get around that the blinking
light and the sound are for safety reasons
then there you go garage doors shut and some unification see not terrible at all
now the one thing I did find a little weird and if I get this focus was that
on the package itself that contained the Internet gateway you you pretty much
agree to a user License Agreement just by opening the package I've never
seen that before it was a little weird but I'm not going to not use it so
pretty much I'm figuring it's very much like John Deere you get to use this but
you don't get to modify it it is what it is it opens and closes your garage door
I mean what more do you want now aside from setting up the internet
gateway and using the website in order to interact with your garage door the
other thing you're going to want to do is use the app that comes with it now I
have mixed feelings on the app it's serviceable but does have some quirks so
let me show you what the app is like when you first log into the app if you
have an item already attached to it you will see it here if not you can come up
here and press the plus sign obviously you'll have to log into your account
first and this is kind of where I start disliking the app because if there you
go scrolling can't scroll X up there sometimes isn't responsive so here you
can open or close just by pressing you can see it has been closed for one hour
this will allow you to change the view of your devices so if you have multiple
devices you can kind of arrange them since I only have one I just leave it
like that coming over here you have options first being history which will
show you all the actions that have happened garage door open garage door
close you can delete your history if you want to and we're just gonna say delete
because well I don't need to know that right now coming back to the side you
have device management which will allow you to add new devices so here I have
hubs discover devices so if I click on garage door which is what I have
currently it's door sensor door opener and you just kind of go through that
menu item next is MyQ guest so this will allow you
to temporarily and without giving your password to somebody allow them access
to your garage door which can be very useful
next is works with my cue so if we click on that it will show you here Amazon key
tip works with nest which sadly nothing will work with nest anymore
wink you've got lots of things that will work oh yeah here's your Google
assistant for a price IFTTT also of the price you get the idea
alerts now alerts you actually have to pull back the camera so focus a little
better alerts you actually have to program in or else you won't get a
notification like that where it says you know my garage door just closed on the
date and time you have to set them up as individual alerts so you do that by
coming over here plus sign devices garage door you can title it you can
select open stop closed and you can say tell me as
soon as it happens all times of day which is what I have push notification
or email and enable alerts now I will say alerts get to your phone
roughly five seconds after an action has happened but what I did originally which
was wrong was I went this alert this alert this alert that's not how it works
you need individual alerts set up for each action shall just keep that in mind
when you're setting up your alerts next is schedule so what this will allow you
to do adding a schedule you can only so you can name your schedule select your
device since I only have the one and close that that's one of the things that
I found with the schedule you can only scheduled to close the garage door they
will not let you scheduled to open the garage door but you can select your
times you can select your days and you could select push notification for what
it happens so if you know you're constantly late for work and you forget
to close the garage door at 7:30 well at 7:35 you can automatically have that
closed for you and it will send you a notification my dealer if you happen to
get your device at a local store you could put that information in
there and then help is just that it's helped so we're gonna come back to my
devices and that's really all the app is it's not flashy it's a little buggy in
places and they kind of combined Liftmaster in Chamberlin it used to be
two separate apps it's now one app which needs a little polishing still in my
opinion but if you use the computer to add your devices and not the app you'll
be okay because all you have to do is push open a garage door and closed
garage door and that works perfectly fine not gonna do it now because it's
raining but you push it and you're good to go so even though it's an unassuming
piece of hardware and not the super sexiest thing that you might get for
your smart home it is definitely something that you should consider if
you have a compatible lift Master Chamberlain MyQ because again Mike
you means that you can actually use this with key by Amazon if you want to allow
people to put packages inside your garage so that's one of the benefits of
this now how much does this convenience cost you well depending on where you get
it it can be anywhere from fifty two ish dollars to around sixty you can keep an
eye out for sales would I recommend it at that price you know what for what it
does in the peace of mind of knowing that my garage door is closed even when
I'm not around or I can close it remotely if necessary or I can give a
guest access to the garage for a temporary basis I really think that if
you have a garage door that is compatible it is well worth looking into
now I do understand that Chamberlain is notorious for making you pay extra for
voice assistant support and for me that's not a big deal I don't
necessarily need to have my voice assistant open and close my garage door
I'm perfectly fine using my phone with that said I have been Wanderer001 if
you have any questions or comments please leave them in the area below and
as always thanks for watching