Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ

The GDO blaQ is designed to work with Chamberlain, LiftMaster and Craftsman residential garage door openers with Security+ 2.0 technology, identified by the yellow round learn button on the back of the motor unit. This includes most garage door openers with myQ built-in. It should only be used with sectional garage doors, not one-piece or swinging garage doors.

If your garage door opener is NOT one of these brands, or has a different color learn button, try our GDO White.

Konnected’s new GDO blaQ can talk directly to your Chamberlain or LiftMaster Security+ 2.0 garage door opener by simply connecting three wires to the back of the motor unit. Security+ 2.0 is an encrypted serial protocol developed by the Chamberlain Group and recently reverse-engineered by some very clever engineers (see here and here) who have published open source libraries. Thanks to this technology, we can now interact directly with your yellow-button garage door opener to privately retrieve rich data and send commands.

Yes, of course, they will still work. Konnected only makes your garage smarter; it doesn't take away any existing features.

myQ is the Chamberlain Group’s very popular (and cheap) answer to smart garage control, but we think it’s pretty dumb. Chamberlain’s myQ provides an app for controlling your garage door thru their cloud service, which means if the internet goes out, so does your smart garage. Also, Chamberlain recently announced that they’re actively preventing access to myQ via third-party apps, cutting off access to myQ through SmartThings, Home Assistant, Hubitat and most other smart home platforms.

We believe that a smart home is an integrated home – where the garage door opener is part of a larger, openly connected collection of devices in your home, controllable locally and/or through a cloud platform or app of your choice – not one you’re forced into.

Contrary to myQ's stance, Konnected supports integration with a multitude of DIY and open-source smart home apps, provides local access and control thru APIs and customizable firmware, and is committed to supporting evolving smart home industry standards including Matter.

ratgdo (Rage Against the Garage Door Opener) is the open source project that inspired and powers the Konnected’s GDO blaQ. It’s a DIY control board and software that pioneered the direct serial connection to the encrypted Security+ openers. We’ve taken the concept and technology in ratgdo and made it into a finished product, suitable for installation in any home, and compliant with regulations in the United States. We’ve added safety features like an audible and visual warning, a sleek plastic enclosure, integrations with a variety of smart home platforms, 7-days per week support and a 1-year warranty.

Yes, the GDO blaQ costs a few dollars more than a ratgdo board. We are not competing on price with the original ratgdo. We believe that the GDO blaQ justifies the higher price because of the additional compliance, safety, support and integration features.

Konnected's GDO monitors and controls a single garage door opener. You'll need one Konnected Smart Garage Door Opener product per garage door.

Yes, for safety, the GDO blaQ gives you visual (blinking) and audible (beeping) warnings for ~5 seconds before it triggers the garage door to close. 

Warning tunes are customizable!

Yes, the GDOv2-Q was designed to meet the U.S. safety regulations in 16 CFR § 1211.14 for the unattended operation of a residential garage door opener.

The device should only be used with a sectional garage door. Do not use with one-piece or swinging doors.

There are no ongoing fees to use Konnected's GDOs. In the future, we may introduce optional premium features for a fee.

It is powered with a regular power adapter (included).

Konnected's GDO works with Home Assistant and Hubitat via a 100% local integration using the ESPHome native API.

Control4 driver is now available as a paid license.

It also works with SmartThings and Alexa via a connection to Konnected's free Konnected Cloud service.

We really don't know. At the present time, there is no a Matter specification for garage door openers. We're watching the Matter release schedule closely and are expecting to start testing a Matter compatible firmware as soon as the device specification is made available by the Matter working group.

You can join our Matter early-access program to stay informed of the progress.

Yes! Konnected's GDO family have a full-featured and local REST API, as well as the ESPHome Native API. See API Reference.