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Meross Smart Wi-Fi Garage Door Opener (MSG100)

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Meross · Garage & Access · ~$49.99 ($49.99 for the US model MSG100HK-US, read from Meross's own store on 2026-08-08. Never treated as a live price.)

Exactly which product this is[1][3][6][12]

Model number
MSG100HK-US
Generation
Not established
Region this page covers
US
Also sold or listed as
MSG100 · MSG100HK · MSG100HKNW · Meross MSG100 Smart Garage Door Opener

“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.

Compatibility

EcosystemSupportThe catch
Apple HomeWorksWorks with this ecosystem[24]Native HomeKit — a real accessory in the Home app with Siri and CarPlay, not a cloud bridge, and the clearest single answer to Chamberlain having removed HomeKit from myQ. BUT YOU CAN BUY THE WRONG BOX, and this is the most consequential purchasing trap in the record: Meross also makes a NON-HomeKit MSG100, sold on Amazon under a near-identical listing explicitly titled '(Non HomeKit Versions)'. Every SKU on Meross's own store carries an HK suffix, so buying direct is safe; buying on Amazon requires reading the variant title carefully. A buyer choosing this product specifically to escape myQ's HomeKit removal can end up with a box that has no HomeKit at all. Remote access additionally needs an Apple home hub, which is Apple's requirement rather than Meross's.
Amazon AlexaWorksWorks with this ecosystem[24]Works through Meross's servers talking to Amazon's. Two things to know. Amazon requires a spoken voice PIN to OPEN a garage door while closing is unrestricted — that is Alexa's rule for garage doors, not a Meross limitation, and it is a safety feature rather than a defect. And because the connection runs between two companies' servers, it stops working when your internet does.
Google HomeWorksWorks with this ecosystem[24]Works through cloud-to-cloud account linking. As with Alexa, Google requires secondary user verification — a PIN — before opening a garage door by voice, per Google's own developer documentation, while closing needs none. Cloud-routed, so it fails in an internet outage.
SmartThingsPartialPartial support — see the catch[25]An official cloud-to-cloud linked service exists, but state synchronisation is chronically unreliable and has been for years. If the door is moved by anything other than SmartThings — the wall button, a remote, the Meross app — SmartThings frequently fails to update, which silently breaks any automation keyed to door state. SmartThings support has attributed it to expired callback tokens, and the fix is to unlink and relink, which destroys your existing automations. Reports run from 2023 through February 2026 with no resolution. ALSO DO NOT GENERALISE ACROSS THE FAMILY: Meross claims SmartThings for the MSG100 but not in the MSG150's copy.
Home AssistantPartialPartial support — see the catch[8]There is NO official Home Assistant integration — the page one would live at does not exist, and 'meross' appears nowhere in Home Assistant's own code. Meross never mentions Home Assistant in its own materials either, so nothing here is a route the maker supports. The community option, krahabb's meross_lan, is well maintained and genuinely runs on your own network, presenting the MSG100 and MSG200 as a garage door. Two catches: even that local route needs a device key taken from your Meross account, so it is not server-free to set up; and the rival community project is server-only, with its own maintainer warning that Meross throttles heavy users. We call it partial because a well-supported community project is not a supported integration.

Protocols: WIFI[7]

Needs before it works: No hub or bridge — the opener joins your home Wi-Fi directly, and only on the 2.4 GHz band, so a network that broadcasts 5 GHz alone will not take it. Apple Home pairing is native rather than cloud-bridged. ONE CAVEAT THAT IS APPLE'S RULE, NOT MEROSS'S: opening or closing the door from away from home through the Home app needs an Apple home hub — a HomePod, HomePod mini or Apple TV. And the genuinely local Home Assistant route still needs a device key held in your Meross account, so 'no hub needed' is true while 'no cloud needed' is not.[26][27]

Subscription reality[34]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No subscription of any kind — Meross states plainly on its product pages, 'No monthly fee or any other subscription fee!' and no feature was found gated behind a paid tier. This is the core of the anti-myQ pitch and it holds up on inspection. The only money beyond the device is the RGR551C adapter, which Meross's support documentation says it will ship free on request with proof of purchase, but which it simultaneously sells for $13.99 — see the adapter note in theCatch.

Maintenance reality

Security updates[20]

Meross publishes no security-update support date for this model. That is a gap in what the manufacturer has published, not evidence either way — some makers declare a support period and some say nothing at all.

Verified absence. Meross publishes no security-update period, end-of-support policy or lifecycle statement on its security page, and its only update-related content announces one firmware release rather than a duration. This is a garage door opener, which is the category where that absence costs a buyer most: the device physically opens a door, and its maker states no horizon for patching it. We record it as a checked absence rather than an unanswered question so the page can say that plainly. NOTE ON THE ROUTE, corrected 2026-09-12: this sentence used to say Meross's shop refuses our reader. It does not — the shop answered four requests normally on 2026-09-12 and the conduct register has been corrected. What does not answer is the security page itself: on a plain read it returns a page shell with a product menu and no policy text, so the absence recorded above still rests on the 2026-08-20 read rather than on a fresh one.

The catch

If you own a yellow-learn-button Chamberlain, LiftMaster or Craftsman opener — Security+ 2.0, which is most of what those brands sold between 2011 and 2022, and therefore exactly the myQ-refugee population this product is aimed at — the MSG100 and MSG200 do not wire to your opener at all. Those openers use a digital serial protocol on the wall-button terminals, so shorting them does nothing, and Meross's compatibility checker responds to a yellow learn button with 'You need an accessory to continue configuration'. That accessory, the RGR551C, is described in Meross's own FAQ as 'a universal remote with an extra signal cable soldered on it' — you pair a remote to your opener and the Meross unit presses one of its buttons for you. That works, but it is a materially more fragile architecture than a wired connection, and none of it is surfaced at the point of sale. Two ways out: the MSG150 at $69.99 handles Security+ 2.0 natively with no adapter, and if your learn button is purple, red or orange you can use the MSG100 directly. If your learn button is WHITE — Security+ 3.0, from November 2025 — no Meross model works at all. The other soft spot is safety on paper: the audible alarm is optional and user-disableable, Meross's own setting describes it as sounding 'when door is closing' rather than before the door moves, no visual warning is documented anywhere, no UL 325 claim is made, and the manual contains no entrapment warning despite remote closing being the entire purpose of the product.

Who it's for

Apple Home households wanting native HomeKit garage control with no subscription — buy the HK SKU, and buy it from Meross rather than guessing on Amazon. The cleanest install is a purple, red or orange learn button, or any non-Chamberlain opener that passes Meross's terminal-short test, because those wire directly with no adapter. If you have a yellow-button Chamberlain, LiftMaster or Craftsman, the MSG150 at $69.99 is the model to buy — it skips the adapter and the sensor entirely. The MSG200HK covers up to three doors on one device. Home Assistant users get real local control through the community meross_lan integration, with the caveat that setup still touches the Meross cloud for a device key. It is the wrong buy for anyone with a white learn button, since no model works; for anyone who wants Matter, which none of these have; for anyone building SmartThings automations keyed to door state, given a three-year-old unresolved sync defect; for anyone who needs a documented audible-and-visual warning before an unattended close; and for anyone shopping Amazon without checking for the non-HomeKit variant, which defeats the whole reason to choose this over myQ.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

37 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
  1. [1] Meross's own garage-door-opener listing at shop.meross.com, read as the store's structured product data and then product by product on 2026-07-19: MSG100HK-US $49.99, MSG150HK-US $62.99, MSG200HK-US $69.99, all listed as available. Meross's own MSG150 copy positions it as brand-specific ('Works with Chamberlain, LiftMaster, and Craftsman. For other brands, please check out Meross MSG100HK'), which establishes coexistence rather than succession. MSG150's compatibility page is dated 2025-11-24. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-15
    Backs: Product identity, Market availability
  2. [2] Putting the MSG200HK in a cart on shop.meross.com and reading the cart back confirmed it at $69.99, one item, on 2026-07-19 (store variant 39962441482396). Cart cleared afterwards; no checkout performed. The $89.99 strike-through means the $69.99 is promotional and is recorded as price at time of research. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Market availability
  3. [3] A non-HomeKit MSG100 is sold on Amazon under a listing whose title reads, verbatim on 2026-08-08: 'meross Smart WiFi Garage Door Opener Remote Work with Alexa and Google | Compatible with SmartThings, App and Voice Control, Auto Close, Easy to install, No Hub Needed, Non-HomeKit Version'. The listing body names the MSG100. Recorded prominently because the buyer most likely to choose this product is one escaping myQ's HomeKit removal, and that is precisely the buyer the near-identical listing harms. ⚠ CORRECTION 2026-08-08: this entry previously also asserted that 'Meross also lists an MSG100 (Non-HomeKit Version) on its own store'. THAT IS NOT SUPPORTED TODAY. Three differently-constructed searches, each with the instrument proven live: (1) a scan of all 57 products in shop.meross.com/products.json found MSG100 only as MSG100HK-US, MSG100HKNW-EU/UK/AU and an MSG100-S-UN sensor cable — no non-HK opener; (2) the store's own search returned 16 results for 'non-homekit' and rendered the garage collection, listing only 'Meross Smart Garage Door Opener, MSG100' at the HK SKU; (3) the MSG100 product page itself contains no occurrence of 'Non-HomeKit', 'Non HomeKit' or 'without HomeKit'. Meross's own store sells the HomeKit model only. The previous quotation of the listing title was also inexact ('(Non HomeKit Versions)') and is replaced above with the verbatim current title. 🔴 WHY THIS AMAZON CITATION IS KEPT RATHER THAN RE-SOURCED: the claim is not a manufacturer fact that happens to be cited to a retailer — it is a fact ABOUT THE AMAZON LISTING ITSELF, namely that a near-identical non-HomeKit unit is sold there under a confusable name. Amazon is the primary source for what Amazon sells, and no manufacturer page, certification registry or CPSC record can substitute for it. Re-sourcing this elsewhere would not be an improvement; it would be a worse citation for the same claim. — Read a retailer or review listing, verified 2026-08-08Seller's spec sheet, checked 2026-08-08This fact comes from a retailer or review specification listing rather than from the manufacturer. Last checked 2026-08-08.
    Backs: Product identity
  4. [4] Meross's compatibility checker at meross.com/en-gc/mTerminal/compatibility-check/garage-door-opener was driven programmatically; selecting the YELLOW learn button returns verbatim 'You need an accessory to continue configuration, please Tap Here to Claim the Accessory'. Meross FAQ 257 and FAQ 405 describe the RGR551C accessory as 'a universal remote with an extra signal cable soldered on it', with instructions to 'Press the yellow learn button on your ceiling opener once' and noting 'The wires connect to the bottom right button, so only this button is working'. So on Security+ 2.0 the device does not communicate with the opener at all — it actuates a paired remote. CONFIRMED BY CHAMBERLAIN, THE OPENER MAKER, that yellow means Security+ 2.0: support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/Determine-the-Color-of-the-Learn-Button-on-Your-Garage-Door-Opener gives Yellow (round) = 'Security+ 2.0 (Rolling Code)', 310/315/390 MHz, 2011–2022. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
  5. [5] Meross support text says it will ship the proper accessory free on request, requiring an order number or receipt plus opener brand, model, learn-button colour and delivery address. But FAQ 405 itself does not state it is free, and Meross simultaneously sells RGR551C-ACCESSORY for $13.99 in its own accessories store (available:true, verified 2026-07-19). Recorded as: free on claim with proof of purchase per support docs, $13.99 if bought outright. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
  6. [6] Meross's MSG150 compatibility page at bucket-meross-static.meross.com/production/h5/StaticPage/2025/11/24/202511240257069315189.html states the model works with 'yellow, purple, red, or orange learn buttons' on 'Security+ 1.0 or 2.0 protocols' and explicitly does NOT support 'white learn button-Security+ 3.0, green learn button'. This is a first-party exclusion. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Product identity
  7. [7] csa-iot.org/csa-iot_products/?p_keywords=meross was driven in a real browser and paginated through all 6 pages, extracting every result row: 69 certificates across exactly 3 products — Smart Roller Shutter Switch (17), Smart Power Strip (25), Smart Plug Mini (27). Zero garage products, zero MSG-series products. The keyword matches the company field 'Chengdu Meross Technology Co., Ltd.', so this captures the full Matter portfolio. An initial filtered query was correctly distrusted and re-run unfiltered. STRUCTURAL CORROBORATION: the registry's own Device Type filter list was read in full and contains Door Lock, Door Lock Controller, Window Covering, Window Covering Controller and Shade Controller, but NO garage door device type — so at the time of this reading a Matter-certified garage controller from any vendor had nowhere to certify to under the device types this registry lists. Note the HK in MSG200HK means HomeKit, not Matter; any source reading it as Matter is wrong. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Protocols
  8. [8] home-assistant.io/integrations/meross/ does not exist, and 'meross' appears nowhere in Home Assistant's own source code — a stronger check than reading its integrations index, which is drawn by the browser. The community option github.com/krahabb/meross_lan (728 stars, v5.8.0 February 2026) reaches the device over the home network by polling it, and presents the MSG100 and MSG200 as a garage door. The alternative github.com/albertogeniola/meross-homeassistant (849 stars) is cloud-only and its maintainer warns that Meross slows down software that calls its service too often, and caps one connection at roughly 10 devices; its fully-local option has been dormant since December 2024. Meross never mentions Home Assistant in its own materials. — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  9. [9] developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-securitypanelcontroller.html for Alexa's spoken-PIN requirement on opening a garage door, and developers.home.google.com/cloud-to-cloud/enhancements/secondary-user-verification for Google's secondary user verification. Both require verification to open and neither to close. Recorded as platform safety behaviour rather than as a Meross limitation, and sourced to each platform rather than to Meross. — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-07-19
  10. [10] Meross's Advanced Settings expose a toggle labelled verbatim 'Closing alarm: Sound alarm when door is closing' — concurrent with motion rather than before it, with no documented warning period or duration, and user-disableable. Whether it defaults on or off is UNKNOWN, and whether it fires on a TIMER-triggered auto-close is NOT documented, which is a real gap for an unattended operation. No visual or flashing warning is documented anywhere: the manual's LED table assigns every LED state to connectivity or sensor events and none to a closing warning, which is meaningful negative evidence. Certifications claimed are 'FCC, IC, ETL, CE, RoHS, WEEE' — ETL is Intertek's general product-safety mark and must not be read as UL 325 unattended-operation compliance. There is NO UL mark and no UL 325 claim, and the manual's safety text is generic electrical boilerplate with no warning about remote or unattended closing and no entrapment warning. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
  11. [11] shengrikuaile.com and mgahv.in both assert that the MSG200HK 'does not meet UL 325 standards for unattended operation'. Both were rejected as sources: they are wholesale copies of Wirecutter content republished on unrelated sites, carrying identical addresses that give away the common origin. The underlying claim may well be true, but it is not citable from these, and the fact that does rest on the maker is recorded instead — that Meross makes no UL 325 claim, documents no visual alarm, and documents no pre-motion warning period. Recorded explicitly so a later reading does not re-litigate it or mistake the copy for a source., verified 2026-07-19
  12. [12] meross.com/en-gc/mTerminal/support/download returns 'No data' with zero manuals listed for any garage model, so all manual wording in this record comes from manuals.plus, a SECONDARY MIRROR, corroborated verbatim across four independent mirror pages and labelled as secondary. Also unreachable: Wirecutter (blocked), Amazon customer Q&A (its server failed), and several third-party pages (which refused us). Additional rejected sources: grokipedia.com (AI-generated; every fact it asserted was independently re-derived from Meross's own store listing and nothing rests on it), plus trunetto.com, diysmarthomehub.com, ventsmagazine.co.uk, findingdulcinea.com and thecutlist.com as AI-SEO aggregators, all unused., verified 2026-07-19
    Backs: Product identity
  13. [13] The MSG200HK page markets 'The built-in sound alarm makes closing the door safer, especially for families with children and pets' while the documented feature is an optional, disableable toggle sounding concurrent with motion, with no visual component — the sharpest marketing-versus-documentation gap in the line. The alarm is promoted on the MSG200HK page, absent from the MSG100 page despite the MSG100 manual documenting it, and unmentioned for the MSG150. SmartThings is claimed for the MSG100 but absent from MSG150 copy while Meross's corporate 'Our Story' makes a blanket company-level SmartThings claim. Offline capability is claimed in marketing and absent from the manual. And 'Broader Compatibility' on the MSG150 in fact means narrower — three brands only. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-19
  14. [14] shop.meross.com/collections/smart-garage-door-opener/products.json, re-read 2026-08-08: the MSG100 is available at $49.99 (MSG100HK-US) alongside EU/UK/AU variants at $50.99. THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IS UNCHANGED and the obvious assumption is still wrong: the MSG100 is NOT superseded by the MSG150 or MSG200. Meross sells all three concurrently with different jobs — MSG100 universal, MSG150 narrower but adapter-free ($62.99), MSG200HK three doors., verified 2026-09-15
    Backs: Market availability, Research status
  15. [15] Re-checked 2026-08-08: actively sold across three concurrent models on Meross's own store, the newest (MSG150) added November 2025, with an active compatibility-checker tool and support FAQ system., verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Service status
  16. [16] Meross static page (it refused our reader outright on 2026-08-18) plus the cited CSA search; shop.meross.com already on record as refusing us — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-18
  17. [17] Meross's own product and FAQ pages plus the calibrated CSA-IoT registry search recorded on this record — Recorded from our own earlier read, verified 2026-08-19
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  18. [18] Capability research, 2026-08-20. Three Meross pages were tried and none carried capability copy for this model: shop.meross.com's product page no longer exists at the address this record cites for the opener, the Meross static compatibility page (cited on this record) covers only which opener brands and learn-button types the MSG150 works with, and no Meross page describing what the MSG100 can be told to do, or what it reports back, could be reached. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
  19. [19] The only Meross-hosted document reachable on 2026-08-20 is a compatibility page whose subject is the **MSG150/MSG150HK**; it mentions the MSG100 only as an alternative for certain opener types and describes none of its capabilities. shop.meross.com and www.amazon.com — the two other sources this record cites — are both on record as refusing our reader. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
  20. [20] Meross first-party surfaces read 2026-08-20. meross.com/en-gc/security carries no support-period, end-of-support or lifecycle statement of any kind; its only update-related content is a notice that new HomeKit firmware has been released to "drastically improve the connection stability", which announces a release rather than a duration. shop.meross.com is a registered refusing host, so the storefront rung could not be walked. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Security-update support period
  21. [21] Record-keeping entry: the migrated research stamp was replaced by the read that actually established this record, 2026-08-30, verified 2026-08-30
  22. [22] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-06
  23. [23] https://shop.meross.com/collections/smart-garage-door-opener/products.json (read 2026-09-10), the store listing this record already cites, carries titles, prices and marketing copy and states no Wi-Fi band, no phone platform and no power figure. The specification page Meross links for this model sits on bucket-meross-static.meross.com, which tells automated readers to stay off that address, so we did not read it. A guessed shop.meross.com address for the MSG100 turned out not to exist. All three facts stay as they are. The remaining route is the app link in the footer of every meross.com page, and whether a site-wide footer can carry a fact about one particular product is a question still open. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-15
  24. [24] Meross's own storefront data for the MSG100 (collection: smart-garage-door-opener), feature list: 'Voice Control: You can control your devices hands-free, just give voice commands to turn on/off the connected devices. Works with Apple HomeKit, Siri, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant.' The same record also states control 'via Apple Home App from anywhere, anytime or speaking to your Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant devices'. Unqualified vendor claims naming all three platforms, which is what these three cells rest on. ⊖ SmartThings is named nowhere in Meross's data for this product, so that cell is deliberately not covered by this entry. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-15
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility
  25. [25] SmartThings' own Works with SmartThings partner page for Meross, read in a browser on 2026-09-10: read without one, the same address answers, but its product grid says only "No products available in your region", because the grid is drawn by the browser. With the region set to United States, the grid lists 14 Meross products by model number. The garage row, verbatim: "Smart Garage Door Opener Model Number MSG100 Category Garage door". It is the only MSG model on the page: the MSG150 and MSG200 do not appear. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-09-10
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  26. [26] Meross's own store listing for 'Meross Smart Garage Door Opener, MSG100' (handle smart-wifi-garage-door-opener), read 2026-09-12. Structured route FIRST: shop.meross.com/collections/smart-garage-door-opener/products.json gives MSG100HK-US at $49.99, available:true, with MSG100HKNW-EU/UK/AU at $50.99 against a $59.99 compare-at. Price unchanged from the recorded $49.99. The rendered page was then read for the Product Specs table, which the structured route does not carry; rating and review regions were excluded and no sentence here comes from one. The table reads verbatim 'Wireless Standards: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, 2.4GHz' — which establishes wifiBands as 2.4 GHz only and is the source for the band leg of hubRequired — with 'Input: 5V~, 1A', 'Power Cord: 4.9 ft long or 1.5 meters long' and an 'Included in the Box' line reading 'USB adapter or Power cord with plug*1', which together give powerSource plug-in. SIBLING STATE from the same collection read: MSG150HK-US $69.99 available:true, MSG200HK-US $69.99 against a $79.99 compare-at, available:true. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-12
    Backs: Price, Market availability, Wi-Fi bands it can use, Power source, Required hub or bridge
  27. [27] Apple, 'Set up your HomePod, HomePod mini, or Apple TV as a home hub', read 2026-09-12, opening sentence verbatim: 'Set up a home hub to control your smart home accessories while you're away from home, share control of your accessories with others, and automate your accessories to do what you want, when you want.' ⚠ WHAT CHANGED AND WHY: the sentence this replaces attributed the rule to Meross and quoted its FAQ verbatim — 'the Home app can NOT control your device remotely unless you set up a Home Hub in your home as required by Apple.' That FAQ could not be re-read: helpcenter.meross.com does not publish the file that tells automated readers what they may read, and where we cannot read that file we request nothing, so nothing on that site was asked for. The record already said the rule is Apple's rather than Meross's, so the quotation was dropped rather than carried on a source we cannot open, and the fact now rests on the party whose rule it is. Apple's page describes the Home app generally and names no Meross product; it is cited for Apple's requirement only, never as a statement about this opener. — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-09-12
    Backs: Required hub or bridge
  28. [28] krahabb/meross_lan, the community Home Assistant integration this record's home_assistant cell rests on, repository front page read 2026-09-12, verbatim: 'You can still manually add your devices without the cloud account login but keep in mind you'd need the ‘device key’ which is a secret stored in your Meross profile.' The same page's supported-device list names this model explicitly — 'MSG100 : Smart WiFi Garage Door Opener' — which is what lets it speak for this model rather than for a whole product family. It also names the three ways it can reach a device: directly over the home network, through a message broker running on the home network, and through Meross's own cloud. AS A CONTROL ON THE OFFICIAL ROUTE, checked again the same day: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/meross/ still does not exist. That missing page is the evidence for 'no official integration exists', not a broken link, and the citation beside it is kept pointed at it deliberately. ⚠ WHY THIS IS A CONTEXT ENTRY AND NOT A CLAIM: our own rules on source quality do not let a community code repository settle whether a hub is required, or how deeply a platform supports the device, and github.com is exactly that. The evidence is real and the sentence it supports is true, but the only party that documents this requirement is the community project itself, and the official Home Assistant page that would be rung 1 does not exist. Recorded rather than promoted: whether a hub is required is claimed by the two entries above, which rest on Meross and Apple, and this leg is disclosed as resting on a community repository rather than quietly typed as something it is not. — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-09-12Someone's observation, checked 2026-09-12This fact comes from an owner, a forum or a community project rather than from the manufacturer. Last checked 2026-09-12.
  29. [29] Re-read 2026-09-12, all three reachable: the compatibility checker at www.meross.com/en-gc/compatibility-check/garage-door-opener still returns 'You need an accessory to continue configuration, please Tap Here to Claim the Accessory' and now states its own scope in the page's first line — 'Only applies to the MSG100/MSG100HK/MSG200/MSG200HK. For the MSG150/MSG150HK, please refer to this link' — which independently confirms the record's reading that the MSG150 is the adapter-free way out. Meross FAQ 405 still reads 'The accessory is a universal remote with an extra signal cable soldered on it', and FAQ 257 still carries the pairing steps. ADDRESS NOTE: the /en-gc/mTerminal/compatibility-check/garage-door-opener path this record cites and the /en-gc/compatibility-check/garage-door-opener path the product page links both answer with the same page; the cited path is kept because it is the one that was read when the claim was made. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-12
  30. [30] Attempted 2026-09-12 while Meross's store page, compatibility checker and FAQs 257/405 were already open. Whether the opener keeps working without the internet stays unknown: the only statement on any page we can read is a marketing tile — 'Offline Control: When the internet is down, you can still control your devices in home network via Meross app' — and this record's own maintenance note already establishes that the manual documents no such behaviour and never says what survives an outage. A marketing tile contradicted by the maker's own manual is not a settled field. Whether an account is required stays unknown: nothing on the pages we could read states whether the Meross app and account are required to commission the device, and native Apple Home pairing is a plausible second door that no page we can read confirms — writing 'required' off an app mention alone is exactly the mistake our rules on account evidence exist to stop. How hard it is to install stays unknown: the store page says only 'Easy to Install', which is a claim without a tool, a time or a step behind it; the tool it does name (pliers, to short the wall-button terminals) belongs to the compatibility TEST rather than to the installation, and we have just finished measuring what happens when that distinction is skipped., verified 2026-09-12
  31. [31] Observed 2026-09-12. (1) bucket-meross-static.meross.com now tells automated readers to stay off the StaticPage addresses this record cites; we stopped before asking for any page, so nothing on that site was read and the two citations pointing at it could not be re-checked. That is a change from 2026-08-18, when the same site refused our reader outright at the page itself — a different refusal, recorded as a different one. (2) helpcenter.meross.com publishes no readable instructions for automated readers at all; where we cannot read those, we ask for nothing, so nothing was requested there either, and that is what stopped the Meross HomeKit FAQ from being re-read. (3) ADDRESS PAIR WORTH A LOOK, recorded rather than acted on: this record cites two bucket-meross-static StaticPage URLs whose filenames are 20251124025706930.html and 202511240257069315189.html. The first looks like a truncation of the second rather than a second document, and today's link-rot finding was that four citations elsewhere in the catalogue turned out to be mis-transcribed rather than moved. It cannot be tested while the host refuses us, so it is flagged here for whichever pass can reach that host again. shop.meross.com, www.meross.com, support.apple.com and github.com all answered normally; no site was retried after a refusal, and nothing was requested where we had been told to stay away. ⚠ A STALE SENTENCE ABOUT OUR OWN ACCESS WAS PUT RIGHT THE SAME DAY: this record's security-support note told readers that Meross's shop refuses our reader. It answered four requests on 2026-09-12. The security-support finding itself is untouched and its date not advanced — only the sentence about our access was wrong, and a record that misreports why we could not check something is a record that misreports its own reliability., verified 2026-09-12
  32. [32] Re-verification pass, 2026-09-12. Sources actually re-read that day, each recorded on its own entry above: Meross's store listing, first as structured product data and then as the specification table a shopper sees; the compatibility checker; Meross FAQs 257 and 405; Apple's home-hub setup page; and the meross_lan repository front page. Facts that HELD: price $49.99, the MSG100 still sold and not superseded, the 2.4 GHz-only radio, the accessory requirement on yellow-learn-button openers, no subscription. Facts that CHANGED: the MSG150's price, $62.99 to $69.99, corrected in both places a buyer reads it; the MSG200HK is listed as available again, after being listed as unavailable on 2026-08-08. Not established, with reasons on their own entry: localOperation, accountRequired, installEffort. Not reachable: the two bucket-meross-static citations and the Meross HomeKit FAQ, both stopped by host refusals recorded above. — Re-checked this against its sources, verified 2026-09-12
    Backs: Research status
  33. [33] Corrected 2026-09-12. Both 'the catch' and 'who it's for' told a yellow-learn-button Chamberlain, LiftMaster or Craftsman owner to buy the MSG150 'at $62.99'. Meross's own store listing gives MSG150HK-US at $69.99 on 2026-09-12, in stock, with no struck-through price beside it, so the figure is the current one rather than a promotion. $62.99 was correct when it was read on 2026-07-19 and is left standing verbatim in the dated entries that recorded it; only the two customer-facing sentences were changed. Worth naming because this is the one number on the record a buyer is sent away to spend, and it sat on the page for eight weeks after the price moved. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-12
  34. [34] Meross's own MSG100 listing, read 2026-09-12 (structured route then rendered page, review regions excluded). SUBSCRIPTION, sourced in full: the product copy still reads verbatim 'No monthly fee or any other subscription fee!', and nothing on the page, in the specs table or in the accessory FAQs gates a feature behind a paid tier. The free-capability list on this record matches the page's own bullets — remote open/close from the Meross or Apple Home app, open/close and overtime and overnight notifications, auto-close after a set time, and 'Works with Apple HomeKit, Siri, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant'. WORKING WITHOUT THE INTERNET — this is what the page says on that question, and it is not enough for us to publish an answer, so this record still says we do not know; the entry beside this one says why: Alexa and Google are described on the page as voice assistants reached through account linking, remote control is framed throughout as going through Meross, and the single local-sounding line is the marketing tile quoted below with no documentation behind it. MAINTENANCE, sourced in part and the part is stated plainly: the batteries entry ('None — mains-powered', the door sensor wired rather than battery-powered) is confirmed by the same page's 'Input: 5V~, 1A', 'Power Cord: 4.9 ft', 'Sensor Wire: 23 ft long' and an 'Included in the Box' line that lists no battery; the cloud-dependence note's opening quotation is confirmed verbatim — 'When the internet is down, you can still control your devices in home network via Meross app', still appearing as a marketing tile with nothing behind it. WHAT THIS ENTRY DOES NOT RE-SOURCE, so nobody reads it as more than it is: the rest of the maintenance note rests on the MSG100 manual and on Meross help articles hosted at bucket-meross-static.meross.com, and that host's robots.txt now disallows us. Those sentences keep their original 2026-07-19 basis and this entry does not speak for them. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-12
    Backs: Subscription, Batteries, Works without the internet
  35. [35] Displayed freshness on this record is the OLDEST of its three date stamps, and that is the service-status date at 2026-08-08. It was NOT advanced, deliberately. The service note makes two assertions: that no integration removals are on record, and that there is no Matter certification to fall back on. The first was re-checked the same day and holds — Meross's own listing still advertises Apple HomeKit, Siri, Alexa and Google, and no page read that day carries a removal, deprecation or sunset notice. The second could not be: it rests on a keyword search of the CSA certified-products registry, and reading that search without a browser returns only the page's vendor dropdown, because the results are drawn by the browser. No browser read was made. So half the question was re-checked and half was not, while one date would claim both — which is exactly the failure of stamping a date on a look nobody took. The service date keeps its 2026-08-08 value, this record stays at the head of its queue, and the next reading knows exactly what it costs to close it: one browser read of csa-iot.org/csa-iot_products/?p_keywords=meross, paged through to the end., verified 2026-09-12
  36. [36] https://shop.meross.com/collections/smart-garage-door-opener/products/smart-wifi-garage-door-opener, read 2026-09-12 (we checked first how this site has treated our reader: open to us, and answering, as observed the same day). bucket-meross-static.meross.com was not requested., verified 2026-09-12
  37. [37] this record's own provenance as it stood before 2026-09-15 (no new external read): the wording of one earlier entry was rewritten so it reads in plain language. No fact, date, source or value changed, and the earlier wording is kept on this record., verified 2026-09-15

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