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Research profile · last verified 2026-07-19Chamberlain myQ Smart Garage Control
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem | There is no Apple Home support and no Matter path. The myQ Home Bridge — the accessory that existed to provide HomeKit — was discontinued in August 2022, Chamberlain's stated reason being that under 1% of myQ users used it. HomeKit owners who migrated to the community Homebridge workaround were then cut off in October 2023 when Chamberlain blocked third-party API access. Chamberlain's own integrations article lists 'Apple HomeKit' and 'Siri voice commands and shortcuts' as unsupported. WATCH THE LOGO LIST: the same page lists 'Apple Watch' as a SUPPORTED partner. That is the myQ app's own watch app, not Apple Home, and a buyer scanning logos will misread it. |
| Amazon Alexa | PartialPartial support — see the catch | There is no general-purpose first-party myQ Alexa skill. What exists is Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, which links the accounts for delivery access — Chamberlain lists Amazon Key as a supported partner and documents the setup. It requires Prime, both apps, and is geographically limited to what Chamberlain describes as 'several cities and their surrounding areas' in the US and Canada, and opening by voice requires a spoken PIN. Recorded as partial rather than full precisely because 'works with Alexa' would overstate it: this is a delivery integration that happens to involve Alexa, not general voice control. HONEST SOURCING LIMIT: Amazon's own Key page returned HTTP 503 and could not be read, so Amazon's current statement of the programme is unverified and this rests on Chamberlain's documentation alone. |
| Google Home | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem | Removed. Chamberlain discontinued the Google Assistant integration for new users after Google shut down Conversational Actions on 2023-06-13, telling the press the integration 'is not a user-friendly experience'. Google Home now appears in the unsupported list on Chamberlain's own integrations article. Legacy users who were already linked may retain function, but if they log out of Google they cannot relink — it is a decaying grandfather clause, not a supported integration, and a new buyer gets nothing. SOURCING NOTE: the Google Nest community thread could not be retrieved (cross-host redirect), so there is no Google-authored statement here; this rests on Chamberlain disclaiming its own integration, plus contemporaneous trade press. |
| SmartThings | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem | Chamberlain's integrations article lists Samsung SmartThings in its unsupported and discontinued list. The counterparty agrees: the long-running community integration brbeaird/SmartThings_MyQ is archived and explicitly labelled '(Obsolete)' in its own repository title. A successor Edge driver exists but requires the user to run a bridge server continuously on their own LAN — a Raspberry Pi or always-on machine — and is subject to the same blocking that killed its predecessor. There is no sanctioned path. |
| Home Assistant | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem | Removed from Home Assistant core in release 2023.12 on 2023-12-06, announced by Home Assistant itself: 'we cannot continue to work around Chamberlain Group if they keep blocking access to third parties', with a maintainer describing 'a game of cat and mouse with MyQ and right now it looks like the cat is winning'. Home Assistant also states it declined authorised-partner status because it would require paying fees, which conflicts with its open-source model. Chamberlain's own position was published 2023-10-25 by CTO Dan Phillips, claiming unauthorised integrations came from 0.2% of myQ users yet generated more than half of platform traffic and 'at times constituted a substantial DDOS event'. Home Assistant's own recommended replacement is ratgdo — a local board that bypasses the cloud entirely. |
Protocols: WIFI
Needs before it works: No separate hub — this device IS the bridge. It joins 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and drives the existing opener via the learn-button pairing process plus a wireless door-position sensor. Bluetooth LE is present but is commissioning-only and is not a control path. A myQ cloud account is mandatory and there is no documented local or LAN control path, so the vendor's cloud is an unavoidable dependency rather than an optional convenience. The former myQ Home Bridge accessory, which existed specifically to add HomeKit, is discontinued — Chamberlain's own support article for it is titled 'myQ Home Bridge Frequently Asked Questions (Discontinued)'.
Subscription reality
◐ Works without a subscription: Yes, but material features need a plan.
- Free: Open and close from the myQ app, Door open/closed status, Open, close and left-open alerts, Guest access sharing, Scheduling
- Behind a plan: IFTTT integration (requires a paid myQ Premium Services IFTTT subscription, per IFTTT's own service page)
Core app control and alerts are free — the paywall sits on third-party integration, not on the product's basic function. CURRENT PRICE DELIBERATELY NOT RECORDED. The widely repeated '$1/month or $10/year' figure traces to a single 2017 trade-press article (Stacey on IoT, 2017-09-18) and no primary Chamberlain page stating a present price could be located, so pricing is left null rather than carried forward from a nine-year-old secondary source. Note also a genuine disclosure asymmetry: IFTTT's own page states the subscription is required, while Chamberlain's own 'How to Link a myQ Account to IFTTT' support article mentions no fee at all. Separately paid and NOT part of this product: myQ Video Storage (for myQ cameras) and myQ Connected Garage (in-vehicle control sold per-automaker) — the latter is a car-dashboard feature and should not be confused with app control.
Maintenance reality
- Batteries: None — the control module is mains-powered via its included adapter. The wireless door-position sensor is battery-powered; Chamberlain does not publish a battery life figure that could be verified.
- Cloud dependence: Yes — a server shutdown would degrade or brick this device
- Fully cloud-dependent with no documented local fallback. In an internet outage the app cannot reach the device at all and you are back to the wall button and the RF remote. Bluetooth is commissioning-only and does not provide a local control path. COMPATIBILITY IS NARROWER THAN THE SALES PAGE CLAIMS, by Chamberlain's own documentation: the product page says it works with 'most brands of garage door openers manufactured after 1993 that use photoelectric sensors', while the support article excludes all DIP-switch openers, all 433 MHz / blue-learn-button Chamberlain units, Wayne-Dalton 303 MHz, Linear Delta 3 and MVP, Craftsman AssureLink, and Overhead Door 2016–present — the last of which directly contradicts the sales page's own brand table listing 'Overhead Door (1996–Present)' as supported. A separate unresolved conflict: Chamberlain's support article lists yellow learn buttons as compatible, while a widely mirrored copy of the product manual states it is not intended for Chamberlain openers with a yellow learn button made between 2010 and 2021 — that mirror is a third-party site, so this is recorded as an unresolved conflict rather than a fact.
The catch
You are buying a cloud appliance from a vendor with a documented, still-ongoing pattern of removing integrations, and the ones that survive are the weakest possible versions. Apple Home: gone. Google Home: gone. SmartThings: gone. Home Assistant: cut off at the API. Matter and Thread: explicitly refused in Chamberlain's own unsupported list. What is left is Amazon Key in-garage delivery, which is Prime-gated and only available in some areas, and IFTTT — which is behind a paywall Chamberlain's own instructions do not mention, and which has no 'open door' action at all. IFTTT can close your garage but cannot open it. There is a further trap for anyone with a brand-new opener: Chamberlain's Security+ 3.0 generation launched November 2025 with a white learn button, and this accessory's compatibility article does not mention Security+ 3.0 anywhere — it still frames compatibility around yellow, purple, orange-red and green buttons. Whether this $65 accessory works on Chamberlain's own current openers is a question Chamberlain's documentation does not answer.
Who it's for
Households that want app control, status and alerts for a garage door, are content to live entirely inside the myQ app, and specifically want Amazon Key in-garage delivery — which is the one integration here that is genuinely well supported and is the reason many people buy this. It is cheap, it is the incumbent, and for that narrow job it works. It is the wrong buy for anyone who wants their garage in Apple Home, Google Home, SmartThings or Home Assistant, because those paths do not exist and their absence is the result of deliberate vendor decisions rather than technical limits. It is also the wrong buy for anyone who wants local control or expects the door to be reachable when the internet is down, for anyone shopping for Matter hardware, and — until Chamberlain updates its own compatibility documentation — for anyone whose opener has a white learn button.
Sources & method
chamberlain.com/smart-garage-control/p/MYQ-G0401-ESMC for the primary SKU; chamberlain.com/automotive-smart-garage-control/p/MYQ-G0401-ESMCAUTO for the automotive bundle; support.chamberlaingroup.com owner's-manuals article covering MYQ-G0401 / MYQ-G0401-E / MYQ-G0401-ES for the alias set. An explicit search for a G0501 or newer retrofit SKU returned nothing, so G0401 is recorded as the current generation. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19 · chamberlain.com store returned an active add-to-cart flow ('Added to Your Shopping Cart') at $64.99 on 2026-07-19. Retailer availability was NOT established: homedepot.com returned HTTP 403, bestbuy.com timed out, and the Amazon product page body was truncated with no readable buy box. — vendor-page research (cart state), verified 2026-07-19 · A csa-iot.org certified-products search for both 'myq' and 'chamberlain' returned the registry's explicit 'No Entries Found' message rather than an error or blank page, making this a filtered negative rather than a failed search. Independently corroborated by the vendor itself: Chamberlain's integrations support article lists BOTH Matter and Thread in its unsupported list. Registry negative and vendor disclaimer agree. — registry research + vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19 · HomeKit: support.chamberlaingroup.com article 'myQ Home Bridge Frequently Asked Questions (Discontinued)', with the August 2022 date and the under-1%-of-users rationale reported contemporaneously by 9to5Mac and AppleInsider on 2022-08-23. Google: 9to5Google, 2023-06-15 and 2023-06-16, tied to Google's Conversational Actions shutdown of 2023-06-13, plus Google Home's presence in Chamberlain's current unsupported list. API blocking: chamberlaingroup.com/press/a-message-about-our-decision-to-prevent-unauthorized-usage-of-myq, by CTO Dan Phillips, dated 2023-10-25. Home Assistant: home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/, removal shipped in release 2023.12 on 2023-12-06. — vendor-page and counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19 · home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/ carries Home Assistant's own reasoning in its own words, including the decision to decline authorised-partner status because it would require paying fees, and its recommendation that users buy ratgdo instead. Per 09 §3, a claim about what Home Assistant supports is sourced to Home Assistant. — counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19 · github.com/brbeaird/SmartThings_MyQ is archived with '(Obsolete)' in its own repository title, verified 2026-07-19. The successor github.com/brbeaird/SmartThings-MyQ-Edge requires a continuously running user-hosted bridge server. Chamberlain independently lists Samsung SmartThings as unsupported. — counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19 · ifttt.com/myq_devices, verified 2026-07-19, lists 4 triggers, 3 actions (close door, light on, light off) and 3 Pro-Plus queries, and states the integration requires activating a 'MyQ Premium Services IFTTT subscription'. The absence of an open-door action is read directly off the counterparty's own action list. RECORDED BECAUSE THE COMMON CLAIM IS WRONG: IFTTT is frequently described as having been removed in late 2023; Chamberlain's October 2023 statement explicitly preserved it ('approved smart home integrations also remain in place'). Chamberlain's own linking instructions at support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/How-to-link-MyQ-account-to-IFTTT mention no fee — the counterparty discloses the paywall and the vendor does not. — counterparty-source research, verified 2026-07-19 · myq.com/works-with-myq listed exactly 11 integration partners on 2026-07-19: Vivint, Alarm.com, Resideo, IFTTT, Control4, Crestron (two entries), Crestron Home, Ezlo, RTI, Jervis and Sensi. Apple HomeKit, Google Home, general Amazon Alexa, SmartThings and Home Assistant are all absent. Recorded because the shape of the survivors is itself the finding: every one is a licensed dealer, custom-integration or security-monitoring channel, and no consumer ecosystem remains. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19 · Chamberlain's Security+ 3.0 generation launched November 2025, is identified by a WHITE learn button, and moved accessory communication from the wired data terminals to encrypted Bluetooth LE — verified in OpenGarage's own vendor-authored technical writeup at opensprinkler.com/security-3-0-how-to-use-it-with-opengarage/ (dated 2026-01-23, retrieved in a rendering browser after plain fetch returned HTTP 403), and corroborated by Chamberlain's own Security+ 3.0 user guide and by chamberlain.com's CH125 Security+ 3.0 wall control listing. THE UNRESOLVED PART: Chamberlain's compatibility article for THIS accessory (support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/garage-door-openers-compatible-with-smart-garage-control) does not mention Security+ 3.0 at all and still frames compatibility around yellow, purple, orange-red and green learn buttons, with no white-button entry — while the Security+ 3.0 user guide separately lists 'Smart Garage Hub' among compatible products. These do not resolve each other, so the answer is recorded as unknown rather than inferred in either direction. — vendor-page research + counterparty-source research (rendering browser), verified 2026-07-19 · The only sourced figure is '$1/month or $10/year' from Stacey on IoT, 2017-09-18, quoting Chamberlain VP Cory Sorice. No primary Chamberlain page stating a current price was located. Several secondary pages repeat the figure but all trace to that single 2017 article. Per the no-invented-prices discipline, pricing is null and priceVerifiedAt is null. — source-chain audit, verified 2026-07-19 · chamberlain.com product page claims compatibility with 'most brands of garage door openers manufactured after 1993 that use photoelectric sensors'. support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/garage-door-openers-compatible-with-smart-garage-control excludes DIP-switch openers, 433 MHz / blue-learn-button Chamberlain units, Wayne-Dalton 303 MHz, Linear Delta 3 and MVP, Craftsman AssureLink, and Overhead Door 2016–present — while the sales page's own brand table lists 'Overhead Door (1996–Present)' as supported. Same vendor, two pages, opposite answers. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-19 · smarthomefocus.com and smarthomeperfected.com publish 2026-dated how-to guides for connecting myQ to Google Home; refuted by Chamberlain's own integrations article listing Google Home as unsupported and by the documented June 2023 removal. smarthomeace.com presents myQ-to-SmartThings as a working integration; refuted by Chamberlain's unsupported list and by the community repository self-labelling '(Obsolete)'. decortweaks.com, garageadviser.net and techtalkhome.com state current subscription pricing that traces entirely to the 2017 article. A Best Buy '$29.99' search snippet was rejected as evidence because the page could not be loaded. Separately worth recording: NO source encountered asserted false Matter certification for this product, which is unusual in this category — the Matter answer here is clean in both directions. — source-quality audit, verified 2026-07-19 · CPSC SaferProducts API returned recall 23725, dated 2023-02-09, 'Chamberlain Group Recalls LiftMaster myQ Garage Door Control Panels Due to Entrapment Hazard' — the panel's secondary entrapment protection can fail, causing the door to close on an obstruction. Models 8500MC, 8500CMC, 8500RGDMC, RJO20MC, RJO20CMC, RJO20CHMC, 889LMMC, 889RGDMC, 041A7928-3MC, manufactured March–October 2022, remedy a free replacement panel, no US injuries reported. RECORDED WITH ITS BOUNDARY: these are LiftMaster wall control panels, NOT this retrofit hub. The two are easily conflated and are not the same product. — regulator-API research, verified 2026-07-19. 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