The storage responds as shortly to the app because it does to an everyday button clicker, with one caveat: Selecting to shut the storage with the app causes it to flash its lights and beep a number of instances earlier than the storage will start to shut, and can nonetheless beep and flash till closing is full. It is for security causes, because the storage does not know whether or not anybody else is within the storage whilst you’re closing it or whether or not you are close by to ensure the storage path is evident of anybody strolling in or out.
The one approach round this, sadly, is to not use the app. You’ll be able to set up the MyQ Smart Garage Video Keypad ($99) exterior of your storage to shut it with out getting any beeping and to get an identical expertise to a video doorbell and good lock however in your storage. I examined one and it really works superb—the important thing codes are straightforward to arrange and you may shut your storage beep-free, plus you will get alerts like a safety digital camera for outdoor of your storage, however I had a combined expertise utilizing the decision button. You additionally must drill it into your storage or residence exterior (MyQ says it is too heavy to make use of adhesive strips), which my residence’s HOA sadly forbids me from doing. Nonetheless, it is a good value for a mix lock and exterior video feed in your storage, should you’re allowed to put in it.
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The default proprietor of the MyQ (that’s, whoever set it up first in your house) additionally will get an onslaught of notifications each time the storage is opened and closed, whether or not by way of app or along with your commonplace storage door buttons. Compared, once you’re an added consumer, you will not get any notifications by default. Each events can go into the app, choose the gear icon on the storage door (or different MyQ product in query), and edit the notifications they’re getting for the precise product.
I arrange each my and my husband’s telephones to get notifications about our storage being open for greater than 10 minutes, and one other for myself if it was open for an hour. You’ll be able to add much more notifications, and it’s also possible to set it as much as work with Amazon Key to get deliveries proper into your storage (and get notified about that too). I have not been capable of speak my husband into utilizing it, however the included digital camera in my mannequin makes me really feel comfy giving it a attempt.
Talking of video, MyQ does have storage subscription plans for its video merchandise (the model additionally has video storage door openers, a video keypad, and a stand-alone camera). The primary tier begins at $20 a 12 months and goes as much as $100 a 12 months, and relying on which tier you choose you get further options like face, particular person, and movement detection, detection zones, and both seven or 30 days of storage.
