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`Review: Why a Smart Home Starts in
`the Garage
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`Don’t laugh: Putting your garage door on the Internet makes your house
`safer and smarter
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`Chamberlain’s Wi-Fi garage door opener lets you operate the most important door in your house via an app, and
`also track whether it’s accidentally left open. PHOTO: GEOFFREY A. FOWLER/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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`By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
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`It’s easy to take for granted what your garage door knows. That contraption doesn’t do
`much other than open and close its greasy jaw.
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`Yet your garage is a gateway for more than just a car and assorted junk. It’s probably the
`most-used door to your house. It sees when you’re rushing off to work and knows when
`you’re back from vacation.
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`Which is why I decided to hook my garage door up to the Internet.
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`I can see that eye roll. Yes, even garages are going online now, like the new $268
`Chamberlain Wi-Fi Garage Door Opener I installed last month. It sounds geeky, but the
`garage plays a critical part in how our homes will become thoughtful. Having information
`about who’s home is step one of automating a house when you connect its many parts, as
`Apple and Google are trying to do.
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`But my Internet garage door was also practical as soon as I installed it. With an app, my
`family can track comings and goings, and can close the door from halfway to the mall
`after someone has a senior moment.
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`This smart home tech is finally at a point that’s neither outrageously expensive nor
`complicated. My Wi-Fi-enabled door from Chamberlain, which also makes the popular
`LiftMaster brand, cost about $30 more than other quiet, unconnected models. If you
`don’t need a replacement just yet, you can also buy adapters from Chamberlain ($130)
`and other companies like Insteon ($80) to retrofit existing doors. There’s no need for
`some high-tech smart home hub. There are no ongoing fees.
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`(Smartening up the perimeter of your home is a big trend. I’ve previously reviewed
`doorbells with cameras and electronic deadbolts that use phones for keys.)
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`Once a pro installed my garage machinery, getting online took less than 10 minutes. The
`newest Chamberlain model comes with everything you need for Wi-Fi already built
`in—no dongles or add-on doodads required. It does require your wireless network to
`reach the garage, so you might need a new router or an extender if you live in big house
`(or have Wi-Fi-blocking walls).
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`When your garage door is online, your smartphone serves as a remote. An iPhone and
`Android app called MyQ lets you open and close the door with a tap. This is a
`convenience if you don’t want to carry keys, or just can’t find your clicker in your
`bottomless glove compartment.
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`That may sound mundane, but the Chamberlain also comes with a superpower: You can
`operate the door far away from home—say if you need to let a baby sitter in before the
`children get home, or let in a neighbor in to check on your house after a storm.
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`Chamberlain makes garage door openers, like this one, that have Wi-Fi capabilities built in. You can also buy
`attachments that add connectivity to older models. PHOTO: GEOFFREY A. FOWLER/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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`And if you forget to close the garage door, it can help, too. After a period of your choosing
`passes, up pops an alert. And now you can actually do something about it wherever you
`are.
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`For safety, before it closes via app, the Chamberlain garage door flashes lights and plays a
`warning tone for a few seconds. (Sadly, there’s no disco ball option.) It works on most
`garages, but in some cases, like on old one-piece doors that swing out, Chamberlain
`warns you shouldn’t operate the remote when you’re not around.
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`Can this thing be trusted to keep hackers out? That sort of thing happens in spy films, but
`the bigger threat for now is probably ordinary crooks breaking a window or picking a
`lock. Still, you should take three security precautions before using one of these: Put
`password or thumbprint protection on your phone, lock down your home Wi-Fi network
`and choose a really strong password for the MyQ app. Anyone who gets your login and
`password could potentially open your garage with the app on their own phone.
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`(Chamberlain encrypts all the communication between the phone, door opener and its
`servers, but still ought to take the extra step of texting or emailing you when someone
`tries to log in on a new phone. The company says it’s working on it.)
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`But taking orders from an app isn’t what makes this garage smart. Its most important
`capability is status reports: Whenever it opens and closes, I get an alert on my phone. For
`parents keeping an eye on their herd, it’s a lightweight way to know what’s going on at
`home without resorting to creepy video cameras.
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`Chamberlain could make this even more useful by letting individual family members
`have their own logins—so it can report the difference between the dog walker and your
`minivan. They’re also working on that for a software update.
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`And it gets better: The garage’s status reports can also help you run the rest of your smart
`home.
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`At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, vice president of technology Kevin Lynch showed the
`next version of the Watch OS. A watch face widget from Insteon, lower left on the screen, could soon let you
`open your garage door from your wrist. PHOTO: WILSON ROTHMAN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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`My Nest thermostat, for one, benefits from knowing my comings and goings as it tries to
`conserve energy. The popular learning thermostat, now owned by Google, can talk to the
`Chamberlain garage opener—just link their logins in the MyQ app. It uses the garage
`door info, along with other signals, to try to figure out when to blast the AC or turn it off.
`This is particularly helpful for people whose Nest thermostats can’t sense activity in the
`house because they’re installed away from the busiest hallways.
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`Chamberlain will soon begin selling a version of its Wi-Fi opener (and an adapter for
`older models) that will also work with Apple’s HomeKit, the smart home tech built into
`iPhones and Apple Watches. This will let you ask Siri to open the garage, or pair with
`other hardware to, say, turn on some lights when you get home.
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`Connecting the appliances around your house to make them work together is the name of
`the game in the coming years. Nest, in particular, has its eyes on figuring out how to
`orchestrate all these connections into patterns that would make your house run without
`your intervention. The most important thing it needs to know is whether anybody is
`home or not. If you want to know why, just think of security cameras: They’re great to
`have on when you’re not home, but you don’t want them spying on you.
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`Mike Soucie, who runs Nest’s partnerships, told me the garage door will do more than
`just inform the thermostat—it’s the kind of data that might help a home do everything
`from turning off lights to turning on dishwashers when there’s no one home.
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`None of this is will be easy to get right. Just because one person leaves the garage doesn’t
`mean the house is empty. “It’s version one today,” Mr. Soucie says, but “the more inputs
`or data points that we get to feed back into that system, the more accurate we can be.”
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`In Nest’s case, this means trusting Google, an advertising company, with a lot of
`information about your home and family. Nest says it runs as a separate company and
`doesn’t share your home data with its parent company. So far. (Apple is designing its
`HomeKit system so that it never sees the data.)
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`You do get something in return for sharing your life with all these machines. It’s already
`worth the nominal extra cost of Wi-Fi to know whether the largest door in your house is
`open—and being able to do something about it if it isn’t. And in the future, it might just
`be the gateway to an automated home that really understands you and your family.
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`Write to Geoffrey A. Fowler at geoffrey.fowler@wsj.com or on Twitter @geoffreyfowler.
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