How to Make Your Garage Door Opener Work for You

With new technology developing more and more rapidly, homes are becoming increasingly equipped with smart technology that integrates basic features into technology for seamless operation. Your garage door is no exception, with this new line of LiftMaster garage door openers by Chamberlain!

Using state-of-the-art MyQ technology, your garage door can be opened and shut with just the click of a button on your smartphone or tablet.

For real? Yep! You can really open your garage door from the comfort of your car as you pull into the driveway or all the way from your cubicle at work.

That’s not all: LiftMaster 85503 comes with a wide array of capabilities including:

• Built-in camera
• 2-way audio
• Wi-Fi capabilities
• Use of brand-specific app on smartphone or tablet

Keep your home safe with your garage door opener

The LiftMaster 85503 also comes with a built-in camera with:

• Motion detection
• Night vision
• Manual 360-degree rotation
• Live-streaming 1080p HD video

What can a garage door opener camera help with?

You can get a bird’s eye view of all of the activities occurring around your garage door, whether you’re keeping an eye on your family as they arrive at home, your house guests as they pull up the driveway, or repairmen and service workers who are helping you maintain your house.

Here’s an example of footage from a LiftMaster 85503 built-in camera.

With this garage door opener, you can see anything and everything around your garage door, as it is occurring in real-time.

Grant Guests Access, One by One

Inviting house guests over? No need to duplicate your keys with the LiftMaster garage door opener and the MyQ application.

1. One-time access

If you don’t want to give a guest access to open your garage door more than once, it’s a simple process to make sure that they can be let into your house through the garage door. Just have your guest send you a text when they arrive at your house and use the smartphone or tablet application to open the door for them.

2. Full-time access

The MyQ smartphone and tablet application comes with a feature that allows you to grant full-time access to particular individuals, and this access can be individualized and customized in a variety of ways, which we’ll get into below.

Here are three distinct methods of granting garage door opening access to individuals:

1. Once-a-week access or access at a variety of specific times, for expected guests who pay you regular visits.
2. Temporary access for a one-time guest who will be arriving at and departing from your house within a certain time frame.
3. Full-time access to a family member, loved one or trusted guest.

Check out these six images to see how easy granting access can be:

Here’s how the app looks on a smartphone. The LiftMaster MyQ app first asks you to select your relationship with your guest. Then, you can select whether you would like to grant “always,” “temporary,” or “recurring” access.

To grant temporary or recurring access, just select the day or multiple days on which you plan to have your guests over and select the date upon which you would like this access to end. Multiple garage door openers can allow you to select the specific garage door to which you are giving your guests opening and shutting abilities.

On the side of your guest, they’ll receive an email to download the MyQ application, through which they’ll be given the ability to access your garage door through the method you select.

With MyQ, users can create notification alerts to keep track of the individuals to whom access has been granted and to keep tabs on their activity. The activity then becomes archived in the event history on the app.

Guest users cannot access:

• Event history
• Camera feed
• All configuration functions
• Commercial operators or gate openers

Here are three scenarios in which your LiftMaster garage door opener could come in handy

• Your neighbor’s young daughter has agreed to walk your dog for an hour, twice a week. If you know the date and time at which she will be arriving at your home to pick up your dog, you can grant her access to open and shut the garage door for the hour-long dog walk.
• You have hired a maid to clean your house three days a week, throughout the entire day. You can make sure that your maid has access to open and shut your garage door on those three days, during the specific time frame in which the maid will be in your house.
• You’ve scheduled some routine maintenance for your stovetop and gas range, but the repairperson can only drop by while you’re at work. You can make sure that the repairperson has access to your garage, or you can open the door for the repairperson once they’ve arrived at your home with just the click of a button.

Pretty useful, right? We think so too!

Ready to have your mind blown yet again?

The LiftMaster comes with a built-in audio system!

Here are some of the audio capabilities of the LiftMaster 85503:

• Real-time two-way communication
• Adjustable volume
• Microphone enabling/disabling feature

Not only can you set up notification alerts for when there is a person in proximity of your garage door, but you can also check in on the person entering your garage through the audio system and converse in real-time!

Let’s say your daughter Rachel is coming home from school, and your phone buzzes with an alert that shows her entering the garage. You can chime in through the MyQ app and say,

"Hi, Rachel."

It’s really that easy!

Keep your home safe and secure!

We know that the LiftMaster 85503 offers the best features when it comes to smart technology capabilities and amenities. That’s not all though: The LiftMaster also comes with a wide array of safety features to keep your home protected at all hours of the day. Here are some of the safety features that come with the LiftMaster 88503.

• Battery backup: With this feature, the garage door can be opened and shut through the smartphone or tablet application even when your home is suffering a power outage because it can operate on battery life.
• Protection against intruders: The garage door opener can detect when potentially dangerous intruders are attempting to enter your garage so that you can keep yourself and your home safe.
• The SECURITY+ 2.0 feature ensures that a new code is sent out each time that the garage door is accessed such that old codes cannot be sourced by potential intruders and attempted on your door.
• Alert-2-Close is a feature that emits a noise and a flashing light when you are opening or closing your door through the smartphone or tablet application. If anyone is trying to enter your door or is nearby, they will get an early warning that the door is about to open or close.

• Safety Sensors will detect whether there is anything blocking the way of the closing garage door. Also called photo-cell safety beams, this safety feature protects the garage door from closing down on obstructing objects.

  
• Motion-detection lighting guarantees that the lights will automatically turn on when someone is entering your garage.

What else can a LiftMaster 85503 do?

To reiterate, the LiftMaster 88503 can:

1. Allow you to open and shut your garage door from anywhere, no matter how far
2. Grant access to specific individuals to open and shut the garage door
3. Get a real-time glimpse in and around your garage through the built-in camera

But that’s not all that the LiftMaster 85503 is capable of:

4. Customize your alerts. Whether you want notifications every time someone gets near your door or you want full control over when you get buzz alerts, the LiftMaster lets you select your own custom notification preferences.
5. Check the status of your garage door. If you were leaving for work or going to get groceries and you think you might’ve accidentally left your garage door open, you can simply pull open your MyQ app and confirm that you remembered to close it; if you didn’t close it, you can just go ahead and do so through the app!
6. Get in-garage deliveries when you order online. You wouldn’t want anyone stealing packages off of your porch, so this is a bonus in terms of both convenience and safety!
7. View past activity with either a 7‑day or 30-day video storage option, available via a monthly subscription.

Ready to make a change on your garage door?

Not all garages come with the kinds of safety features that you and your family deserve to feel safe and secure in your own home. If your garage was built before 1993, you might not even have the sensors that all new homes are legally required to install by law! 9% of burglars enter a home through the garage door , so the safety of your garage is of the utmost importance.

Looking for a garage door opener without the built-in camera feature?

There are plenty of fantastic door opener models with varying features, perfect for customers looking to make their purchase to exact specifications.

Here’s an infographic to help elucidate the differences and transform the technical language into something more comprehensible.

Looking for help with this process? Contact us today at 613-547-4566 for the Kingston area and 613-966-5655 for the Belleville area.

Here at Upper Level Doors, garage doors, and garage door openers are our specialty. We can answer any and all questions, and our team of industry experts is ready, willing, and able to dispense valuable advice based on your individual situation, from budget to logistics to installation.

If you’re looking to take on a complete garage door replacement project while you’re at it, we can help. Check out our list of unique, distinctive garage door styles to get a taste of what’s possible. Our Design Centre can even let you superimpose images right onto your own garage door!