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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-30

Remootio 3

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Remootio · Garage & Access · ~$129 (price at time of research, seen on the maker's own store on 2026-07-29 and unchanged on 2026-08-30; it is a sale price, the regular price is $149, and the item was listed as sold out on both days)

Exactly which product this is[2]

Model number
Not established
Generation
Third generation. Apple Home support reached this generation through an app update rather than at launch. We could not find a launch date for the hardware on any page we could reach.
Region this page covers
US
Also sold or listed as
Remootio 3 + Sensor + Power Adapter

“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[6]The one Remootio path with real step-by-step setup instructions from the maker. Remootio's guide walks through adding the device in the Apple Home app and shows the door's status changing live on the Home tile, from 'Closed' to 'Opening' and back. Siri can open it, close it and tell you whether it is open. What Remootio does not say is whether Apple Home talks to the device directly or through Remootio's own bridge software, or whether you need a home hub such as a HomePod or Apple TV. That unanswered question decides whether this keeps working if Remootio ever stops updating its software, so we leave it open rather than guess. Apple Home support for this generation arrived through an app update, not in the box.
Amazon AlexaPartialPartial support — see the catch[7][17]Works through Remootio's cloud, and you must say a PIN before Alexa will open the door. You will need a Remootio account, which the basic product does not otherwise require, and link it to Alexa. Asking whether the door is open needs no PIN. Amazon's own rules require a spoken code before Alexa opens any garage door, so this is not unique to Remootio. We could not confirm the Remootio skill from Amazon's side, because the listing would not load when we checked, which is why this stays 'partial' rather than 'full'.
Google HomePartialPartial support — see the catch[7][17]Works through Remootio's cloud, and you set a PIN that Google asks for before opening. You will need a Remootio account linked to Google Home. The device appears in the Google Home app as a lock. Nothing in Remootio's instructions suggests Google talks to the device on your home network, so expect this path to stop when your internet does. We could not find Remootio in Google's own list of supported devices, so this stays 'partial'.
SmartThingsPartialPartial support — see the catch[8][17]Works through Remootio's cloud, and it is the path that makes you create a Remootio account. Remootio's own instructions say so: you normally need no account, but linking to SmartThings requires one plus a shared key. No SmartThings hub is mentioned. Samsung's own directory of SmartThings products does not list Remootio, checked 2026-07-29 and again 2026-08-30. Missing from a list is not the same as unsupported, so this stays 'partial' rather than 'full' or 'none'.
Home AssistantPartialPartial support — see the catch[9]Home Assistant support is unofficial. Home Assistant publishes no integration for Remootio, and Remootio's own list of platforms does not mention Home Assistant. What exists is a community-built add-on, and it is a good one: it talks to the device directly over your home network with no Remootio cloud in the path, using two keys you copy out of the Remootio app. What sets Remootio apart is that the community did not have to reverse-engineer anything. Remootio publishes the technical interface itself and promises that new versions will keep working with old ones, so the local path rests on a written commitment rather than on the company's goodwill. Recorded as 'partial' because the add-on is community-maintained, and because we found no source that reports how reliable it is in real homes.

Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH[1][4][23]

Needs before it works: We could not confirm whether it needs a hub. Remootio lists three ways to reach the device: Bluetooth when you are standing near the gate, your home Wi-Fi from inside the house, and the internet when you are away. That reads like a device that stands on its own, but the company never says so outright, and we do not turn a list of connections into a hub answer. One thing is confirmed: the Home Assistant route reaches the device directly over your home network with nothing in between.[4]

What it can do[14]

You can tell it to

  • Open/close

It reports

Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation

Whether each platform's automations and routines can use it — not just whether its app shows it.

What it doesApple HomeGoogle HomeAlexaSmartThingsHome Assistant
Open/close✓ routines can use it✓ routines can use it✓ routines can use it✓ routines can use it✓ routines can use it

Platform documentation: Amazon Alexa — automation engine ceiling (eight terms observed; residue inconclusive by refusal) (2026-09-01), Apple Home — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01), Google Home — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01), Home Assistant — automation engine ceiling (2026-08-29), SmartThings — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01)

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality[5][24]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: No — no vendor account is involved.[15]

Apple's App Store listing describes the Remootio app as subscription-free, with no in-app purchases. We trust that more than the same words on the maker's own site, because Apple requires accurate disclosure of in-app purchases as a condition of listing. We could not read Remootio's own pricing and terms pages on the day we checked, so we found no paid tier and are not claiming one is impossible.

Maintenance reality[4]

Security updates[16]

Remootio declares security updates for this model until December 31, 2030 (EU-declared — the maker's legal commitment is filed for the European Union). After that date the product keeps working; the manufacturer simply has no stated obligation to keep issuing security fixes.

Remootio commits to security updates for at least five years from the product's first sale in the EU, until at least 31 December 2030, and to keeping already-released updates downloadable for at least ten years after they are published. It also commits to acknowledging a reported vulnerability within seven days. One limit: the promise is written for the EU market, and the same page says it also satisfies UK rules. A US buyer is not told that this promise covers their unit.

The catch

Remootio never says whether it works with Chamberlain's newest openers. That is the deciding question in this category. Chamberlain, LiftMaster and Craftsman openers from 2025 onward, the ones with a white 'learn' button, block every third-party controller (Chamberlain calls this Security+ 3.0), and nothing Remootio publishes addresses it. If you own one of those, do not assume this will work. Treat the question as open until Remootio answers it. You may not be able to buy it. Remootio's own store showed the product as sold out on both days we checked, with a price still displayed. Nothing suggests it has been discontinued, since the app and the technical documentation are still being updated, but a price on a page is not an offer. Alexa, Google Home and SmartThings all go through Remootio's servers. Each needs a Remootio account, and Alexa and Google ask for a PIN before opening the door. None of the three is confirmed from the platform's own side yet. Apple Home is the one path with a proper setup guide from the maker. What is unusually good: Remootio publishes the technical interface that lets your own network control the device, and promises to keep it backward-compatible. Most products in this category make you work around the company to get local control. Here the company hands it to you, which is the difference between a device you control and a device you are permitted to control.

Who it's for

Someone who wants a gate or garage controller that keeps working on their own network, and who values a maker that publishes how its device works over a polished app-store story. It is a natural fit for a Home Assistant household comfortable installing a community add-on and copying two keys out of a phone app. It suits driveway gates as well as garage doors, which is rare here, and Bluetooth control at the gate is a real advantage where Wi-Fi does not reach. It is the wrong buy in a few specific situations. If your opener is a Chamberlain, LiftMaster or Craftsman with a white learn button, do not buy this on hope, because Remootio publishes no answer and we will not guess one. If Alexa, Google Home or SmartThings is your main platform, expect account linking and a PIN, and budget for a rougher setup than an officially listed device would give you. If you want Home Assistant support that Home Assistant itself stands behind, there is none. And if you want it this week, the maker's own store says sold out.

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 →

27 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
  1. [1] remootio.com/pages/how-to-use-remootio-via-bluetooth-only (read 2026-08-09): describes controlling 'your Remootio (and therefore your gate/garage door) via Bluetooth' without Wi-Fi or internet; 'Bluetooth function only needs to be turned on' with no pairing through phone settings; explicit limit 'this option is only available if the phone is within the Bluetooth range of Remootio'; the guide covers both Remootio 2 and Remootio 3 with links to each model's installation manual. Remootio's own site separately describes the three connection modes (Bluetooth for direct control without Wi-Fi or internet, Wi-Fi for local-network operation, internet for remote access). — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-09
    Backs: Protocols, Works without the internet
  2. [2] The vendor's own product page (remootio.com/products/remootio-3, read 2026-07-29) names the product 'Remootio 3'. The legal entity comes from an ecosystem-controlled host rather than the vendor's site: Apple's App Store listing for the Remootio app names the seller as 'Assemblabs Ltd' — see src/data/manufacturers/assemblabs.json. Generation detail comes from that same listing's release notes, which record 'Remootio 2 Apple Home support' and 'Apple Home support for Remootio 3 devices' as separate items, establishing that Apple Home arrived per generation via app updates. No model number is published on any page we could read, so this record leaves the model number blank rather than guessing it. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Product identity
  3. [3] remootio.com/products/remootio-3, read 2026-07-29: 'Sale price $129.00 USD; Regular price $149.00 USD' with the item shown as 'Sold out'. Price and purchase state are recorded as two independent facts because they disagree — a displayed price on an item nobody can buy is precisely the trap this catalogue keeps a standing note about. soldUntil is 'unknown' rather than 'ended': no end-of-life notice, no named successor, and active maintenance on the same day (app v8.3, released May 27; a current specification for controlling a third-generation unit, published by the vendor). The catalogue has ruled this shape before — the Nest Hub 2nd gen was out of stock in every colour with no EOL notice and was recorded with availability unresolved rather than skipped. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Price, Market availability
  4. [4] remootio.com/products/remootio-3, read 2026-07-29, lists connectivity as 'Bluetooth (also works when there is no Wi-Fi / Internet access)', 'Wi-Fi (local network)' and 'Internet (via Wi-Fi)'. The package is listed as including a 'Sensor (for detecting if your gate is open or closed)' and the feature list includes 'Open / Close status sensor'. No Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave or Matter support is claimed anywhere on the page and none is recorded. DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED: a search result summarising this product's electrical specification (relay output, voltage range, accessory ports) was encountered and NOT used — search summaries are not sources, a rule this catalogue has had to apply repeatedly, and no page carrying those specifications could be retrieved. That is why powerSource and installEffort are 'unknown' on a device that is obviously wired. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Protocols, Maintenance, Required hub or bridge
  5. [5] Apple's App Store listing for the Remootio app (apps.apple.com/us/app/remootio/id1456463154, read 2026-07-29) states the app is 'Subscription-free', lists Price as Free, and shows no In-App Purchases. Recorded as an affirmative statement rather than an absence argument, and sourced deliberately to Apple's listing rather than to the vendor's own marketing, because Apple requires accurate subscription and in-app-purchase disclosure as a condition of distribution. LIMIT STATED: the vendor's commercial terms live on remootio.com, which began turning us away for asking too often partway through, so no paid tier was found and none is asserted to be impossible., verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Subscription
  6. [6] remootio.com/pages/homekit-garage-door-opener-setup-using-remootio, read 2026-07-29: a numbered setup procedure that ends with the accessory in the Apple Home app, includes selecting 'Garage' as the location, and documents status behaviour verbatim — 'While the garage door is moving, the text on the button in the Home App will change from "Closed" to "Opening" or from "Open" to "Closing".' The vendor's HomeKit landing page (remootio.com/pages/homekit-garage-door-opener, read the same day) lists supported commands as 'Open garage door. Close garage door. Is garage door open?' NEITHER PAGE STATES WHETHER HOMEKIT IS NATIVE ON THE DEVICE OR DELIVERED VIA A BRIDGE, and neither states whether an Apple home hub is required — both were checked for exactly that and both are silent, which is why path and transport are 'unknown'. appPlatforms is established from the existence of first-party listings on both stores: Apple's App Store listing above, and a Google Play listing for com.remootio.app confirmed to exist and to carry the Remootio name. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Apple Home compatibility
  7. [7] remootio.com/products/remootio-3 (read 2026-07-29) names 'Amazon Alexa' and 'Google Assistant' among supported platforms, and the Remootio App Store description states gates can be controlled via 'Alexa and Google Assistant'. The vendor's own tutorial articles for both were NOT retrieved: remootio.com began turning us away for asking too often partway through, requesting a 60-second wait; the wait was honoured once, the host refused again, so the reading stopped under our first rule for reading other people's sites. NO ECOSYSTEM-SIDE SOURCE WAS OBTAINED for either platform — an Amazon Alexa skill listing for Remootio appears in search results, but the listing itself answered with a server error and is therefore not cited. Recorded 'partial' with mechanism unestablished, matching how this catalogue records tailwind-iq3's advertised-but-undocumented SmartThings support., verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility
  8. [8] remootio.com/products/remootio-3 (read 2026-07-29) lists 'Samsung SmartThings' among supported platforms. SAMSUNG'S OWN DIRECTORY IS SILENT: partners.smartthings.com/products/remootio has no page for this product, checked 2026-07-29 (reached by a redirect from www.smartthings.com/products/remootio, followed because it pointed at the same thing). That is an absence from a list rather than a statement of non-support, so the cell is 'partial' with the gap named, not 'none' — the same rule this catalogue applied to OpenGarage's unlisted ecosystems. The vendor's SmartThings tutorial article exists but could not be retrieved before the host began turning us away for asking too often. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  9. [9] Home Assistant publishes no integration for this device: home-assistant.io/integrations/remootio has no such page, checked 2026-07-29. What exists is a community custom component — github.com/undecomposed/remootio-v3-ha-integration, read the same day — whose documentation states it is installed by dropping a folder into '/config/custom_components/' or through the community add-on store, and that it performs a 'Local WebSocket handshake with session encryption (no Remootio cloud required)', configured with the device's network address plus the two access keys the Remootio phone app hands out. THE WAY THE DEVICE IS CONTROLLED IS OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED BY THE MANUFACTURER: github.com/remootio/remootio-api-documentation exists under Remootio's own GitHub organisation and carries first, second and third-generation specifications for controlling a unit directly over the home network, with the compatibility statement 'New versions of the API shall be a superset of the original API, so all programs written based on the older API specification shall continue to work with the newer version.' That distinction — documented protocol versus reverse-engineered one — is recorded because it changes how durable the local path is, and it is the opposite of what this catalogue found for iSmartGate. — Read the platform's own documentation, verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  10. [10] NO SECURITY+ STATEMENT OF ANY VERSION appears on the vendor's product page, either HomeKit page, or either app-store listing, all read 2026-07-29 and all checked specifically for it. Security+ 3.0 is the decisive compatibility question in this category — Chamberlain's 2025-generation openers with white learn buttons lock out third-party controllers, a fact this catalogue has sourced from Chamberlain's and Home Assistant's own publications on other records — and a vendor silence is not a 'works' and not a 'does not work'. It is recorded here as an explicit unknown with the reason, per this category's rule that every record answers the signature question with either a sourced statement or a calibrated unknown. The vendor's knowledge base may address it; it could not be read that day, because remootio.com had begun turning us away for asking too often., verified 2026-07-29
    Backs: Service status
  11. [11] remootio.com's product page, its Alexa/Google Home/SmartThings tutorials, its installation manual, and its security-update policy page, all read 2026-08-30 — the pass that replaced the migrated placeholder this entry used to carry. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Research status
  12. [12] remootio.com product page and the Bluetooth-only and HomeKit setup articles, all already cited on this record — Recorded from our own earlier read, verified 2026-08-19
  13. [13] remootio.com/products/remootio-3, read 2026-08-20. Connectivity is given in full and in three parts — "Bluetooth (also works when there is no Wi-Fi / Internet access)", "Wi-Fi (local network)" and "Internet (via Wi-Fi)" — and the only expansion the page offers is physical: "two accessory input terminals (e.g. sensor and doorbell button)". Compatibility is framed entirely as what it can OPERATE ("Most electric gates", "Most garage door openers", "Most electric strikes"), never as devices that connect through it. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  14. [14] remootio.com product page for Remootio 3, read 2026-08-20: the device operates "Most electric gates", "Most garage door openers" and "Most electric strikes", controllable over "Bluetooth (also works when there is no Wi-Fi / Internet access)", "Wi-Fi (local network)" and "Internet (via Wi-Fi)". Expansion is physical: "two accessory input terminals (e.g. sensor and doorbell button)". — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
  15. [15] remootio.com — 'How to use Remootio with SmartThings', read 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Vendor account required
  16. [16] remootio.com/security-policy (EU CRA / UK PSTI security-update disclosure), read 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Security-update support period
    Checked 2026-08-30. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
  17. [17] remootio.com — 'How to use Remootio with Alexa', 'How to use Remootio with Google Home', and 'How to use Remootio with SmartThings', all read 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
  18. [18] remootio.com — 'Remootio 3 user manual', read 2026-08-30; re-read for this correction 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
  19. [19] remootio.com — 'Remootio 3 user manual', read 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Power source, Installation
  20. [20] remootio.com/products/remootio-3, re-read 2026-08-30 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Price, Market availability
  21. [21] github.com/remootio/remootio-api-documentation (the vendor's own published documentation for controlling a unit directly over the home network), read 2026-08-30, with remootio.com's storefront read the same pass for vendor-trading state — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-30
    Backs: Service status
  22. [22] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood at updatedDate 2026-08-30 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-05
  23. [23] remootio.com/products/remootio-3, re-read 2026-09-17: price, stock label, connectivity list, supported-platform list, package contents and a targeted absence check for Security+ and the sensor's connection method. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-17
    Backs: Price, Market availability, Protocols, Works without the internet
  24. [24] Apple's App Store listing for the Remootio app (apps.apple.com/us/app/remootio/id1456463154), re-read 2026-09-17: Price 'Free', 'Subscription-free', no In-App Purchases section, version 8.3., verified 2026-09-17
    Backs: Subscription
  25. [25] partners.smartthings.com/products/remootio (read as plain text 2026-09-17, no such page) and partners.smartthings.com/supported-devices (read 2026-09-17, no Remootio entry) — the attempt to re-source this claim on Samsung's own side that our rule for a source that has vanished requires before anything moves. — Read the platform's own documentation, verified 2026-09-17
  26. [26] remootio.com's product page, Apple's App Store listing for the Remootio app, and Samsung's SmartThings partner directory (product page and supported-devices index), all read 2026-09-17. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-17
    Backs: Research status
  27. [27] this record's own lifecycle note as it stood before 2026-09-19 (no new external read): its wording 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 2026-09-19

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