Why choose Konnected’s GDO blaQ instead of ratgdo?

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.

Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ

Name: Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ
Brand: Konnected
Price: 89.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.7 (66 reviews)

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Konnected’s new Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ picks up where myQ dropped the ball — making your Garage Door Opener Smart again with local, cloud-optional integration with your favorite smart home platforms. Designed for Chamberlain/LiftMaster garage door openers with yellow, red, orange, blue, purple, or brown learn button, including those with myQ built-in.

Made with ESPHome. Works with SmartThings, Alexa, Home Assistant, Hubitat, and HomeSeer. A Control4 driver is now available, and can be purchased from Chowmain.

MyQ, Security+, Security+ 2.0 and LIFTMASTER are trademarks of the Chamberlain Group.

Comparing GDO blaQ, ratgdo, and myQ for Home Assistant?

GDO blaQ is the Konnected garage-door controller to consider when you have a compatible Chamberlain-family opener and want local-first control in Home Assistant or another supported smart home platform.

If you are researching ratgdo, use the ratgdo vs GDO blaQ guide to compare the two approaches. If your starting point is myQ no longer working with Home Assistant, use the myQ/Home Assistant guide for background and migration context.

Compatibility still comes first. GDO blaQ is for compatible Security+ and Security+ 2.0 openers, including many Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Craftsman, and Merlin models with red, purple, or round yellow learn buttons. Security+ 3.0 models with a round white learn button are not compatible with Konnected GDO products today.

If your opener uses a simple dry-contact wall-button input instead, compare the GDO White path in the Smart Garage Door Openers collection.

Konnected GDOv2-Q (blaQ)
hookup wire
mounting hardware
power adapter
installation & setup guide
wall sticker

Works with Chamberlain/LiftMaster garage door openers with yellow, red, orange, blue, purple, or brown learn button, including those with myQ built-in. NOT compatible with Security+ 3.0 openers with a white learn button (2025 and newer).
As few as three wires to hook up
No additional sensors needed.
Open/close the garage fully or partially and detect partially open states
Works locally with Home Assistant, Hubitat, HomeSeer, Control4* and via Konnected Cloud with SmartThings & Alexa

*Control4 driver requires a paid site license.

Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ Quick Start & Installation Guide

myQ stopped working with Home Assistant?

GDO blaQ is the Konnected garage controller for Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Craftsman, and Merlin openers that use supported Security+ or Security+ 2.0 technology.

It bypasses the myQ cloud entirely and is built for local-first Home Assistant garage control. It is not a universal replacement for every myQ-branded opener, so check compatibility before buying.

If your opener uses a dry-contact wall-button path, or if you are not sure which product fits, compare the Konnected GDO family before choosing.

Read the myQ + Home Assistant replacement guide or find the right Konnected garage door opener.

Works where
myQ doesnt

We use the same Security+ protocol as myQ to talk to your garage door opener — without the myQ app or cloud service! Konnected lets you directly control your Security+ garage door with the smart home apps that Chamberlain doesn’t want you to. Local & private, cloud-optional, and no required fees.

Security+ and myQ are registered trademark of The Chamberlain Group, Inc.

Home Assistant

SmartThings

Hubitat

Fee-free
smart monitoring

Control from
anywhere

Multiple
smart home apps

Easy installation with
Quick Start Guide

Endless automations
& routines

Fee-free
smart monitoring

Learn Why the GDO blaQ Exists and Why You Need One

Works with Chamberlain / LiftMaster

Including those with built-in myQ

Compatible Learn Button colors:

Yellow

Orange

Red

Blue

Purple

Brown

Still not sure if your garage door opener is compatible?
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60-Day
Money Back Guarantee

1-Year Replacement Warranty

Designed & Assembled in North America

Ships
Worldwide

Convenience at your fingertips

Open and close from anywhere

Custom closing warning sounds

Open garage to any specific level

Real-time notifications to your phone

Quick & Easy Installation

Open and close from anywhere

Partial Open and Close

Want to let some air in without rolling the door all the way up? With the GDO blaQ, you can open your garage just a few inches... or a few feet... right from your favorite app. Whether you're venting heat, grabbing a package, or sneaking out the trash, full control means you choose exactly how open is “open.” No subscriptions, no locked ecosystems. Just smarter control.

Light and Lock Control

Control the garage light and lockout feature from your phone - no more running out in your socks to hit a wall button. Turn the lights on before stepping into a dark garage, or disable remotes at night for extra peace of mind. It’s the same functions as the wall panel, but smarter, faster, and always in your pocket.

Made for ESPHome

This product ships with ESPHome-based firmware pre-loaded for local, secure, and open-source integration with Home Assistant and Hubitat.

Konnected is committed to making this powerful DIY smart home firmware easy and accessible for all, which is why we’ve created a cloud connector for ESPHome to integrate with SmartThings and Alexa.

Powerful, customizable, and plug-and play smart home integration with your choice of smart home platform.

Upgradable to Matter

Matter is the emerging smart home standard that provides secure and local integration with all big-name smart home platforms, including Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Samsung SmartThings, Home Assistant, Hubitat, and Homey Pro. Currently, the Matter specification does not support garage door opener device types, but when it does, Konnected is committed to supporting this game-changing standard on all of our GDOv2 models.

Note: Upgrading to Matter will require re-flashing the device firmware with a computer and USB cable.

*Konnected’s Garage Door Opener is not (yet) Matter certified. Join our early-access program to stay up-to-date with development.

Built on Open Source

Konnected’s new GDO is built on entirely open source software, made with high-quality genuine components, and assembled with love in the USA. We designed it with an emphasis on choice, privacy, and local control – because we believe that the technology that you bring in your home is yours to own. The GDOv2’s firmware configuration is published here on GitHub and is built upon these primary open-source libraries:

esphome (ESPHome License)
esp-idf (Apache v2)
gdolib (GPL v3) Konnected's Security+ library for ESP-IDF inspired by ratgdo

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Works with Chamberlain/LiftMaster garage openers with Security+ or Security+ 2.0 technology

Reads garage door status directly from the garage door opener

Can open and closes the garage to a specific level. Example: open 10%

Mounts directly on the garage door opener (or supports)

For nearly all other garage door opener brands, including Genie, Linear, Overhead Door, and older Chamberlain/LiftMaster models

Built-in optical sensor senses the garage door status

Fully opens or closes the garage door

Mounts on the ceiling above the
garage door

Learn more

Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Security+ and Security+ 2.0 are registered trademarks of The Chamberlain Group, Inc.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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.

Yes. GDO blaQ is a myQ alternative for Home Assistant when your Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Craftsman, or Merlin opener uses supported Security+ or Security+ 2.0 technology. It is not a universal replacement for every myQ-branded opener.

Yes. GDO blaQ bypasses the myQ cloud entirely for compatible openers and gives Home Assistant users a local-first control path for everyday garage automations. Konnected's own cloud service may still be used for integrations such as Alexa, SmartThings, and Google Home.

Start with GDO blaQ for Chamberlain, LiftMaster, Craftsman, and Merlin openers using supported Security+ or Security+ 2.0 technology. Learn-button color, opener model, and control method matter, so check compatibility before buying.

Choose GDO White when your opener uses a compatible dry-contact or wired push-button control path and GDO blaQ is not the right compatibility match. If you are not sure, start with the Smart Garage Door Openers collection or compatibility resources.

Security+ 3.0 openers, commonly identified by a round white learn button, are not compatible with current Konnected GDO products.

GDO blaQ builds on the same open-source Security+ idea that made ratgdo popular, then turns it into a finished Konnected product with easier setup, broader smart home integrations, support, Amazon availability, returns, warranty, and safety compliance for automated garage-door control. Read the full ratgdo vs GDO blaQ comparison.

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.

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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

Based on 66 reviews

Total 5 star reviews: 57 Total 4 star reviews: 4 Total 3 star reviews: 2 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 3

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Jim L.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
2 months ago
So simple, so good
I received my GD opener, read the instructions, and had it installed in minutes. It took only a few minutes longer to get it integrated into Home Assistant. It works like a champ with my Liftmaster. Couldn't be happier!
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James S.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
5 months ago
Great replacement for the MyQ hardware and app
Over the past few years the response of the MyQ app was getting slower and slower. Also, if I was away and didn't open the garage door for a few days, the MyQ hardware had trouble syncing with the open/close status dongle attached to the garage door.
This blaQ garage door opener together with its web interface works great. It was easy to connect to the opener itself and I have had no issues with the blaQ to date.
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EDWARD F.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
11 months ago
Latency is a little slow is all.
I'm very happy with the product. After much exchange with tech, we can open/close the door from anywhere. It all started when our Chamberlain Liftmaster Professional died. It was controlled remotely with an Iris/Zwave married to Smarthings. I replaced it with a stock Chamberlain opener, like 175bucks. Iris/Zwave didn't like talking. That said, I used the stock wall mount switch that came with it. Unbeknownst to me, it wasn't a Smart switch, but did work, locally. So I now have purchased a Konnect devise and replaced the stock wall switch with a compatible smart switch, Security3 and all is good.
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Derrick L.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
1 year ago
I love this device
I bought this device so I would have access to my garage through other smart home automations since MyQ stopped supporting 3rd party connections. The Kinnect blaQ has helped me with my automations tremendously.
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Steve M.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
2 years ago
Easy to set up and connect with Home Assistant/ESP Home
GDO Blaq is great way to automate your garage door! Easy to install and set up in Home Assistant/ESP Home. I use Home Bridge and Apple HomeKit to allow non-technical family members to control this and the Konnected alarm.
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Smart Garage Door Opener blaQ

MyQ, Security+, Security+ 2.0 and LIFTMASTER are trademarks of the Chamberlain Group.

Comparing GDO blaQ, ratgdo, and myQ for Home Assistant?

myQ stopped working with Home Assistant?

Works where
myQ doesnt