if you've ever driven away from your home and then got down the road and
suddenly wondered, "Did I shut my garage door?", then what I've got to show you now
might be of interest to you.
And that's the MyQ Smart Garage Hub
from Chamberlain.
And with this installed, you can use your smart phone and open or
close your garage door from anywhere you're at.
You'll need a drill with a
5/32 bit, a pen or marker to mark your screw holes, a Philips head screwdriver,
I would recommend safety goggles, and your smartphone.
And here's what comes in
the box:
you get the MyQ Smart Garage Hub; the mounting bracket for the hub;
the power adapter for the hub; the door sensor; and the adhesive strips and all
the mounting hardware you need to attach everything.
You need to have a sectional
garage door, one that has these individual panels. And it has to be a
door manufactured after 1993 that has photoelectric sensors at the bottom.
The next step is to download the "MyQ Garage & Access Control" app.
Once that's downloaded, go ahead and open it.
If you have an account you can go ahead and
sign in; if you don't have an account, go ahead and sign up.
You'll then get an
email sent to you. You'll need to check that email to complete the registration process.
Log into the app and it will take you to the Device Setup screen.
We want to go to the MyQ Smart Garage. Select that. Tells you what you need to
get started.
Next it says Power Up. Plug in your hub out in your garage or
somewhere very near your garage, because the app is gonna walk us through
connecting this hub to your home Wi-Fi network.
Once it's plugged in, the app
asks you, "Do you see a blinking blue light?" And ours has that.
We push "Yes" to
go on to the next screen.
If you have an iOS phone, it asks you to scan the
serial number on the back of this device and allow MyQ to have access to the camera.
So we need to flip the hub over and scan this serial number with your phone.
And it says, "Connecting to your device. MyQ wants to join Wi-Fi network MyQ 778.
And it brings up a list of nearby networks. So select
your home network. And then you enter the password for your home network.
And when it connects, it says, "Added to Wi-Fi", and the light on the hub is now green
instead of blue.
Now we have to connect the device to your garage door opener.
First we're going to install the sensor. It's battery-operated
so we need to pull out this strip to activate the battery.
There's a test
button right here, so we're gonna push that and see if it's really activated.
And the red LED at the top flashes, letting us know that it is working.
The door sensor comes with some small screws or some adhesive strips that you put on
the back to attach it.
With my door, it's best to use the adhesive strips.
And on the case of the sensor, it has the word, "Top", so you want to mount that with that pointing up.
The strip's go here and here.
Remove one side of each strip first, and
attach it to the sensor.
Then remove the covering off the other side of the adhesive.
And now you're going to mount the sensor on the top panel of your
garage door. Anywhere along this top panel would be fine.
And that's on there firmly.
Now we're going to pair the door sensor to the Smart Garage Hub.
And tap "Next" to begin.
Now push and release the button again.
I'm gonna push it again to
complete pairing.
It beeped. So the beep means that they're paired.
The next step
is pairing the Smart Garage Hub to the garage door motor.
These next steps are
going to make the garage door move, so be sure that everything's out of the way
of the garage door. And be sure you're starting with the garage door closed.
The next screen will ask you to select the brand of your garage door opener. Mine is
a Craftsman.
Then you need to locate the Learn Program button.
It's on the side or
bottom of the garage motor.
When I remove the cover on the side of my garage door opener,
the Learn Button is right here.
And it is purple.
Once you find it, click on "Found it", and select the color of the Learn Button you have.
Now we want to get the garage door opener in the Learn mode.
Press and release the button just like you would a doorbell. The LED on your garage door
motor should turn on. And don't press it for very long, just a quick press.
If you long press it, that can erase all the learned transmitters and keypads that
are connected to this opener. So you don't want to do that!
The light turns on.
Click "Next".
And it's now attempting to pair.
And the door opens.
And my screen says, "Paired".
And now we're going to install the actual hub.
Install the hub so it's at least 6 feet above the ground, and within 5 feet of the AC outlet.
And the hub and it's light should be visible from anywhere in the garage.
Don't hide it behind something.
This is a warning light that goes off whenever the
garage door is closing. And people need to be able to see that.
They also recommend that the hub be mounted at least 4 feet away from any metal objects.
This is the bracket for the hub. And it needs to be mounted so that this part is
against the ceiling.
The hub itself attaches onto this part.
So I'm gonna
put this up against the ceiling and mark my two holes for mounting it.
And you can
put a pencil or a marker through the bracket to mark your holes.
I've got my
bracket holes marked now.
And I'm going to drill those holes.
And push in the
wall anchors that came with it.
Once the wall anchors are in and they're flush
with the ceiling, you can attach the bracket with the included screws.
There's the bracket after it's been attached.
And now we're going to install the hub on
the bracket.
Here's the bottom of the hub.
And here's the rails that have to slide
over the edges of that bracket.
It has to go on from this direction because this
end is blocked.
Slide the hub onto the bracket, get it lined up there, and it
snaps into place.
Now we want to hook up the power to it.
We plug in this end of the power adapter into the hole.
And then we plug the power
supply into the open socket.
If you end up with a lot of extra cord from the
power supply hanging down, there's a couple of things you can do
with it.
You can just wrap it up with the tie that came around the cord to begin with.
Or, the way the hub is made, you can also wrap that extra cord around the
base of the hub, and secure it out of the way like that.
Once you're done with the
installation and setup, the app will tell you, "Success". You're all set.
Tap "Finished",
below to begin using the app.
And right away it tells me the garage door is
closed, and it has been closed for 14 minutes.
Now no matter where I'm at, I can
open or close my garage door.
And I can do that by opening the app, pressing on
this symbol of the garage door. It says, "Open". Press it again,
and the garage door opens.
Magic! Or rather, technology!
The app also lets you
set alerts or create schedules.
For example, you can create an alert that
lets you know any time the garage door has been open for 45 minutes or more.
You can also create a schedule that closes the garage door at 11:00 p.m. every night
if it's still open.
And I want to show you now what happens when you do
close the garage door from a remote location.
The hub will beep and a light
will flash just as a warning to anyone that might be around the door, to please
get out of the way!
The Smart Garage Hub also comes with a warning label this is supposed to be
attached out in the garage by the control that normally opens and closes
your garage door.