okay i have a new device it's by my cue it's called the smart garage hub
this allows you to get alerts and control your garage door from anywhere um if your garage door
is left open this this will let you know um and you could close it remotely from anywhere it keeps
a track of the time the garage door was open like here it says it would remain open since 8 o'clock
this cost 29.95 at sam's wholesale which i thought was a pretty good deal
and um it works with apple and google. The MYQ Smart Garage Hub Review
and it not only it's from chamberlain but it's not just one device from chamberlain it works with
genie and other garage door openers um you get two devices with this one device you get it you attach
to the um garage door so it senses what position the garage is in and then the other device is um
you you hook up next to your your garage door opener and it talks it um communicates to it
and sends signals from your wi-fi phone so this should be a pretty interesting device to install
i'll i'll do an install on it and we'll see how it works all right to set up the my q
smart garage hub you need this app my cue it's going to ask you to sign up with a email address
okay the first thing you do is you download this um
my q chamberlain app here and i put it on my tablet right now after you install
it and sign up with the email account then you can click on the device here
and they tell you that you're gonna need all this to get the device to work you check each
box to make sure you got all this device stuff here ladders and all kinds of stuff yeah wants
to know my location for some reason i'm not going to leave that enabled i'm just going to
do it right now ready go to your garage plug the device into an outlet do not mount the
it yet so i already got that done i'll hit next do you see a blue blinking light yes i do hit yes
looking for devices let's see if it finds it. The MYQ Smart Garage Hub we discovered a device
all right let's click that device
now it's connecting to the device
all right so it wants this i'm going to do a be because it's compatible with 2g
and it's going to want my password of course i put my password in is now connecting to the network
i think that light turns green which i think it already did yep it looks like it's green
All right my device is now connecting to the network this may take a few minutes
you have specifically connected your device to the wi-fi network
now let's connect your device to the garage door opener
i hit next they want you to pull the battery tab off this device here all right hit
next push and release the button on the front of the device there it goes
next i guess it doesn't stay on
the next step will pair your door device to your hub
tap next to begin a bright light will flash in the middle of the smart hub
now push and release the button again to complete pairing
all right and bright light just came on
door sensor is now paired to your smart hub so these both both devices know they exist now
we'll now show you how to mount the door sensor watch the video below or tap next for the next
step i'm gonna watch the video or i could play it i guess locate the panel on your garage the
top one choose either right or left and use the tape to install there's some tape they give you
put the sticky tape on the back of the vise and mount it onto the top of the garage
the next step will pair your device to the garage door motor all right
all right now i gotta pair the hub to the um garage door opener
grab a ladder access your garage door motor and make sure the door is clear a path
select your garage door or motor i have a chamber one
now they want you to push a button find the learn
program button on my case it's the top one the yellow button on mine
all right found it select the color of the button mine is yellow
does your door motor look like the one below
i guess it does
press and release the like a doorbell the program learn button
you just found the led on your garage door motor should turn on do not press the button
longer than you need to or will erase the keypad well that's always good isn't it
okay i'll go do that
so i went and pushed my yellow button on my garage door opener
and now i'm waiting for it to connect to the chamberlain hub right now it's not finding it yet
all right it just opened my garage door
and when it successfully connects it says paired so it's just paired right now
then you got to give your garage door a name i'm going to hit next
all right you can get two of these but i don't got two of them
all right it just opened my garage door
all right it currently says my garage door has been open for two minutes
i'm gonna try to close it now
we're supposed to be able to push that and it closes
um it's not really doing anything right now
all right i pushed closing the garage door and it says it's gonna close
so there's a small delay in closing the garage but it does close with this app you can add users
add new users guests etc you could do a schedule you a history of how the garage store
it's about the um it worked pretty well it knows the garage door is closed
um here i'll hit it again seems to be really slow to react for some reason
so it works
that's what it does when you push close it blinks the light
it tells you it's closing takes about 10 seconds
it takes about 10 seconds to close
so it seems to work well um i'll give it that much you can control your garage door remotely now
i did want to show you that you can change the battery on this
they don't tell you in any of the instructions so what you do is you push this little tab
on the bottom and it opens up the um device the um sensor to let you guys know that when
i was installing the app the myq app for this thing that it asked me
um to join prime and it was at the end of the installation and i hit x because i don't
want to join prime and then it said something like well you haven't complete completed your
um setup do you want to continue so the only way i could get out is hitting that x and saying yes
stop the setup um granted it did it did um still work but as i opened the app
it seemed like it was asking if i wanted to join prime every time i open the app i'm sure there's
a way to disable that but um that's too intrusive for me and i'm i'm not interested in that
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