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.
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.
Including those with built-in myQ
Compatible Learn Button colors:
Yellow
Orange
Red
Blue
Purple
Brown
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Open and close from anywhere
Custom closing warning sounds
Open garage to any specific level
Real-time notifications to your phone
Open and close from anywhere
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Easy install. Konnected devices are a great experience to use. Added to my SmartThings app with a touch of an icon opens and closes my garage.
