Have you considered making your garage smart using a Chamberlain Garage Door Opener? Perhaps you are like Matt who recently reviewed the new MyQ Garage Door Opener on the blog. He did a detailed installation video and discusses each step involved and shows all of the great features of this door opener. At the end of his post, he laments not having added one of these sooner for the convenience and safety it offers. Read on to learn more, then enter for a chance to make your garage smart with Chamberlain.

What are the advantages of a smart garage door opener

The term “smart” is often applied to devices we can control in several ways, including using an app on our phones. So the first advantage of the Chamberlain MyQ garage door opener is that you don’t need to look around for the remote to open the garage: your phone is always with you so you always can control the door. Share the app with members of your family and they always have the ability to get into the garage. Also the app is secure: likely much more secure than a keypad controller.

Smart devices also often have unique features built in to add convenience. The Chamberlain MyQ app will show if the door is open or closed. This is a nice feature if you left home and forgot to close it. Even better, the Chamberlain Garage Door opener has a camera. Imagine that you left home, notice on the app that the door is still open and want to close it. However, you know it’s not safe to close the door without checking that it’s safe. With the camera, you can watch it within the app as it closes, knowing 100% that nothing, and no adult or child, will be harmed.

Installing a smart device at this time of year makes perfect sense

Fall is the best season to install smart devices for several reasons. For most of us, travel season is over, the kids are in school and back into their regular sports practices, weekend games, piano lessons, and homework, homework, homework. You are running around from one location to another and will easily forget to lock doors or close the garage as you leave. These are the times when thieves thrive. But a smart home is a more secure home. A thieves worst nightmare. Cameras capture their images; smart lights scare them off; smart doors keep them out!

And most smart devices are quick and easy to install. Admittedly, there is a range of difficulty levels and a smart garage door opener is on the more complicated side of that range. In his review article and video, Matt explains the entire process. He didn’t do this alone, and you should consider asking a friend to help too. Follow the steps and you will soon have the garage door opener that homeowners dream of! Here is Matt’s video. Watch it, then return to this article to enter the contest for your chance to win one.

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways.

  1. In a comment below, tell us how many smart devices you have in your home and what you think it the biggest advantage to having smart devices in your home.
  2. In a comment below Matt’s review article, tell us what you like best about this smart garage door opener. What is your favourite feature?
  3. Visit the Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage Door opener page on bestbuy.ca and go to the “Specifications” section of the page to find the information that is missing from the image shown here on the right. In an email to bestbuyblog@bestbuycanada.ca with the subject line Chamberlain contest, tells us what information is missing in this image.

What you can win

At the end of this contest, we will randomly select two (2) winners. Each will receive a new MyQ Smart Garage Door opener for their home.

This contest runs from Oct  31st to Nov 14th.

Remember, you can enter in three different ways as discussed above. Talk to your family and friends about this contest as some of them will have a garage and may be interested in upgrading to one of the best, and smartest, garage door openers available!

Win a Chamberlain Smart Garage Door Opener Rules and Regulations

Good Luck.

Martin Renaud
Martin Renaud
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Martin loves working with the talented editors and writers on the Best Buy Blog as Editor-in-Chief. During his spare time he is either working on his next novel, cooking up a masterpiece in the kitchen, or adding some smart tech to his new home on Mayne Island in British Columbia.
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  2. We have four smart devices here in our home – a tv, two plugs and a google. We find them really useful.

  3. I just have two smart devices. The advantage with them is that they can be controlled and monitored remotely.

  4. I like that It features a quiet DC motor to remotely open or shut the garage door.
    Fav. feature: a range of 457 meters for remotely opening and shutting the garage door

  7. I have maybe 20 intelligent devices. The most significant advantage is automating things together, all from my smartphone.

  9. The best things i like about the smart garage door oepner is Built-in camera with 140-degree wide angle captures clear 1080p video footage so you can you see what’s going on while you are away. Speaker with two-way microphone for communicating with visitors and delivery personnel, or scaring away trespassers.

    My favourite feature is Built-in camera with 140-degree wide angle captures clear 1080p video footage and motion sensor.

  11. Currently I have alexa devices to switch on/off Television and room lights. The biggest advantage is that it works through voice command and anyone can operate it easily.

  15. I’ve lost count of how many smart devices we have – – light switches, thermostats, doorbell, music players! I personally love being able to access everything remotely – checking to make sure lights are on if we’re out of town, or being able to see if packages are dropped off at the front door, etc.

  16. Currently we do not have any installed smart devices. I’m cautious at this point but willing to be convinced.

  18. this would be perfect as I always wonder if i have forgotten to close the garage. Right now we have an older model garage door opener and no smart features.

  19. I have three smart devices in my home. The biggest advantage to having smart devices in your home is the ability to save on energy!

  21. It features a quiet DC motor to remotely open or shut the garage door.
    Fav. feature: a range of 457 meters for remotely opening and shutting the garage door

  23. I currently don’t have any but I’m constantly driving back home because I’m afraid my garage door didn’t close. It has a mind of it’s own! This would be a great upgrade, especially the camera!

  35. Smart devices in my home make my life a lot easier as I am able to control and monitor those devices even when I am not at my house.

  36. I have 3 smart devices in my home and the biggest advantage to having smart devices in your home is to make life easier.

  40. We have four smart devices and I love that we can turn our heating up or down or turn the lights on when we are not at home.

  42. I DON’T HAVE ANY SMART DEVICES IN MY HOME—EXCEPT FOR ME, THAT IS! And at 71 I need help not to fall off that ladder, turn off that stove, —– you know, live, without maiming myself!!!

  45. I have 2 smart devices in my home and need more. They just make my life so much easier. I love the smart plug where I can tell Google to just turn on my light for me.

  46. I have none, but I know my collegue who have pets, love the cameras so they can check up on them throughout the day.

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