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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  3. I love that this garage door opener also has a camera so you can watch and monitor your garage on the app

  9. Currently I have just a couple of smart plugs and google nest products. I like how they save time and makes repetitive tasks easier so I can focus on more important things.

  11. I have a smart television but no other smart devices. It would be great to have a sensor that would tell if I leave the door open . So often I think I have closed it but sometimes I forget.

  12. I have 5 smart devices in my home. By far the biggest advantage is managing devices wherever I am via app like my Nest thermostat.

  14. 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

  15. I like that I can use my phone with this door opener and my favorite feature is being aware if the overhead door is still open – a valued feature in my home with attached garage as I don’t want a vandal to have access to my home if they get into the garage!

  16. I have a smart thermostat and I love it. I NEED these garage door openers in my life. My door has been left open in the winter and in the summer, and am not needing that mistake again. Good luck to all!

  17. I have one smart device ,a new tv. I need this garage door opener . i am getting tired of lifting my garage door.

  19. Probably between 6 and 10
    I appreciate that anyone in the family can use them without having to bother someone else

  20. We have a lot of smart devices; not even sure the actual number. I like being able to turn on/off lights in my home while i’m away. And talking to someone through our door cam, whether I’m home or not.

    My favorite feature is “your phone is always with you so you always can control the door”! Would be so handy.

  22. In my home, I am currently using smart lighting, smart plugs, smart speakers, smart assistant and smart thermostat. I would really love to add this to my smart home.

  23. I have a smart camera as a baby monitor. The best advantage is that i can be anywhere in the house and receive notifications on my phone!

  26. The only “Smart” products we have in our home, is the phones and tv. I’m not sure about the privacy of having too many “smart” features inside our home.

  28. I have about a dozen smart devices, being able to see what’s going on at the house at any time can give peace of mind.

  30. I have 3 smart devices at home – camera, smart tv and google mini. I love the camera. Helps me to feel secure when I’m not home.

  33. 6. Using the smart tv the other day, I explained to my kid how fantastic a vcr was back when I was a kid. Needless to say he was not impressed. Biggest advantage is no drawer full of vcr tapes

  34. Sorry – I have no Smart Devices in my home – I guess I am on the “grandfather plan’ as they say at my age! But this is a great contest, as our garage door has not worked for a long time and this would be just awesome to win and especially with Winter coming on. Thank you.

  36. I have 6 devices in my smart home including Google homes, plugs, bulbs and a thermostat. I love the ability to set up routines and control things with my voice or remotely.

  41. I have no smart devices in my house but this garage door opener would be great because it has wifi and you can add a co-owner.

  42. I have have 1 smart device (Google Home). Best advantage to smart devices is the ability for automation and customization.

  44. 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

  47. I have 4 smart devices in my home, if I was to build a new home it would be full of smart technology! (some day). The best advantage I can see is the energy savings you can expect.

  48. We have smart security cameras that call me when there is movement and smart plugs that work with anything plugged in to them. I often forget to turn off the Christmas lights but the plug is scheduled to shut off at 10.

  50. A nice feature about this garage door opener is the app is that you can invite a co-owner to share in your account

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