Add Myq Garage Door To Homekit

Add siri voice control with the 819lmb myq home bridge from liftmaster.

Add myq garage door to homekit.

Download the free myq app and purchase either a chamberlain smart garage hub or upgrade your existing garage door opener to a smart garage door opener with built in myq connectivity. See what happens when myq meets apple homekit. Download the latest version of the myq app and create an account if you don t have one already. Want to link your.

You can also control the opener via siri commands such as open the garage door or close the garage door. Using homekit to open the garage door once everything is set up you ll see the garage door opener in your home app represented by a homekit tile. Your home will also need a strong wi fi signal to be able to control and monitor your garage through the myq app. A homekit enabled garage door opener with myq lets you integrate siri voice control set scenes and much more.

Homekit allows for secure local control but as the home bridge is still a normal myq device as well it still expects and needs to have access to the myq internet service to work at all. View entire discussion 10 comments. Then the myq home bridge became available added homekit compatibility so i added that to the original setup. Again it was a relatively simple setup and was working flawlessly.

Visit our support site for articles and videos on myq connectivity. Don t have a smart garage. Add devices and accessories by hitting the plus sign icon. Yes you need to set up myq and an account on their cloud service first get your garage door paired with it and only then do the homekit pairing also from the myq app.

Select homebridge under the discovered accessories tab and then make sure to enable home data. Even though an additional purchase of a homekit bridge is extra the combination is still a cheaper option than replacing your opener which can take hours. I mainly got it to add my existing poe security cameras to homekit and installed it at my dads to add the security cameras ring doorbell and his lift master myq garage door. I decided to add my third garage door to the.

Connect to your myq enabled garage door opener gate operator and lighting. Adds homekit compatibility to these products that are already enabled with.